Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Urological surgeon

First Title value, for Searching England, Henry Richard (1917 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-10-06 2013-12-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Henry Richard England gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1954. He was originally from Auckland, New Zealand, and was born on 30 June 1917. He died in London, aged 94, on 18 August 2011. He was survived by his wife, Joy.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, John Alex Stephen (1916 - 2005)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details John Alex Stephen Green was a urological surgeon in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Born on 27 October 1916, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1946. He died on 1 September 2005 aged 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009279
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First Title value, for Searching Makar, Naguib Bey (1893 - 1984)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2020-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381522381522
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon
Details Born in 1893, Naguib Bey Makar was a general surgeon in Cairo, Egypt. He became a fellow of the college in 1923. Credited with being the first Egyptian surgeon to practice urological surgery, he was also the author of numerous articles on schistosomiasis. He died in 1984.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009339
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First Title value, for Searching Hudson, Horace Noble Guthrie ( - 2006)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-19 2015-06-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373956373956
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Horace Noble Guthrie Hudson was a urological surgeon for the North East Metropolitan Regional Health Board. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937. He gained his FRCS in 1942. His previous appointments included working as a surgical registrar at West London Hospital and as a senior surgical registrar at Westminster Hospital (All Saints Urological Centre). He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He died on 14 April 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001773
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First Title value, for Searching McIntyre, Donald (1927 - 2018)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-12-13 2021-11-11
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Donald McIntyre studied medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated MB, ChB in 1951. He did house jobs at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and then moved as a registrar to the department of urology at the United Leeds Hospitals. Following a period as senior registrar in urology to the Salford Royal and Christie Hospitals in Manchester, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1959 and became a consultant urological surgeon. Besides working at the Salford Royal and Christie, he also worked at the North Manchester General Hospital and the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a fellow of the Manchester Medical Society. He died on 7 September 2018, aged 90.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009554
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First Title value, for Searching Jacobson, Isaac ( - 2002)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-07-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374729374729
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Isaac Jacobson was a urological surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa. He was educated at SACS (South African College Schools) in Newlands, Cape Town, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town, qualifying in 1935. He travelled to London intending to train as a surgeon, but, with the intervention of the Second World War, joined the RAMC. He served in the Army for six years and was imprisoned in France. He worked in hospitals in France and Germany caring for fellow prisoners of war, until he was banned from practising medicine because he was Jewish. After three years he was repatriated to London, where he was based until his demobilisation in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1947 and returned to Cape Town in 1948. He joined Groote Schuur Hospital as a urologist and a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. During his 54 years' service at Groote Schuur he helped found the uro-oncology combined clinic and advanced stoma therapy in Cape Town. In 1998 he was made an honorary member of the South African Urological Association. Outside medicine, he enjoyed reading literature and playing the violin. In 1940 he married Joan. They had three daughters, Carolyn, Linda and Mandy, six grandchildren and a great grandchild. Isaac Jacobson died on 10 July 2002. His family survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002546
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd-Davies, Reginald Wyndham (1934 - 2023)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Reginald Wyndham Lloyd-Davies was head of clinical urology at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
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First Title value, for Searching Hart Hansen, Ole (1938 - 2009)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-06
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ole Hart Hansen was a consultant urological surgeon in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was born on 7 November 1938. He trained in surgery mainly in Copenhagen, becoming a specialist in surgery in 1974 and, in 1976, in gastroenterology. In 1980 he defended his thesis on cellular renewal in the human gastric mucosa. From 1979 to 1984 he was a consultant and chief surgeon at Saint Lucas Hospital, Copenhagen, and, from 1984 to 2004, at Hillerød Hospital (north of Copenhagen). He retired at the age of 65. He suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and died two years later, in October 2009. He was 70.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001715
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First Title value, for Searching Gilliland, Eric Leslie (1948 - 2016)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2019-09-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381406381406
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Eric Leslie Gilliland was a consultant urologist at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton-on-Tees. Born on 2 January 1948, he studied medicine at London University. After training at Saint Mary’s Hospital as a registrar in surgery he moved to a more senior position at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City. During the early part of his career he spent time as a research fellow at Harvard in the USA. When he died on 3 July 2016 aged 68, he was survived by his wife Irene, children Fiona, Niall and Peter, and grandchildren Harry, Lyla, Jack and George.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009223
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First Title value, for Searching Halim, Irfan (1976 - 2021)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-04
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Occupation Urological surgeon General surgeon
Details Irfan Halim was a consultant general surgeon at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010076
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Clive (1933 - 2016)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2019-10-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Clive Parker was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Sunderland. Born in 1933, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated MB ChB in 1957. He became a fellow of the college in 1966. On 24 March 2016 he died aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009123
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First Title value, for Searching Sarkar, Himadri Kumar (1920 - 1970)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Himadri Sarkar was a urological surgeon in Calcutta, India. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009794
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First Title value, for Searching Gingell, John Clive (1935 - 2022)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-05-17
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Clive Gingell was a consultant urological surgeon at Southmead Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010121
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Roger Barritt (1944 - 2012)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2014-10-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375030375030
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Roger Barritt Jones was a consultant surgeon and clinical director of surgery and urology at Rotherham General Hospital. He studied medicine at Manchester University, gaining a BSc in 1965 and graduating MB ChB in 1968. After house posts, he was an assistant lecturer in anatomy at Manchester University, and a registrar in surgery at the University Hospital of South Manchester. Prior to his appointment to his consultant post, he was a senior registrar in general surgery at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. Roger Barritt Jones died on 18 June 2012, aged 67. He was survived by his wife, Hilary, and sons Andrew, Richard and Paul.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002847
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First Title value, for Searching Ashworth, Arnold ( - 1993)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ashworth received his medical education at Manchester, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1940. After war service in the RAMC he obtained the FRCS in 1950 and made his career in urology, holding consultant posts at the Crumpsall Hospital Manchester, at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, the Royal Manchester Childrens' Hospital and at the University Hospital of South Manchester. He died on 16 September 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Sharma, Chandra Maulishwar Prasad (1933 - 2009)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373800373800
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Chandra Maulishwar Prasad Sharma was a consultant general and urological surgeon in Patna, India. He qualified MB BS in Patna in 1958 and gained his FRCS in 1965. He was a senior surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and a surgical registrar at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen. He then became a consultant general surgeon for Dyfed Area Health Authority. In 2009 the Royal College of Surgeons was notified of his death.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001617
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Grant Burkhill (1932- 2020)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-04-14
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Grant Williams was a urological surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009752
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First Title value, for Searching Abel, Paul David (1952 - 2023)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Paul David Abel was a professor of urology at Imperial College, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010470
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First Title value, for Searching Gibson, Geoffrey Reginald (1928 - 2019)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Geoffrey Gibson was a urological surgeon from New South Wales. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009974
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First Title value, for Searching Steyn, John Hofmeyr (1929 - 2022)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-09-21
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details John Steyn was a consultant urological surgeon in Aberdeen. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010160
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Picton ( - 1999)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

First Title value, for Searching Paris, Andrew Martin Ingledew (1940 - 2021)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-05
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Andrew Paris was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009966
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, John Bernard Michael (1929- 2018)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-03-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details John Roberts was a consultant urological surgeon in Bristol. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009728
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First Title value, for Searching Foster, George Hurst (1934 - 2007)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2019-12-03
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details George Hurst Foster was a urological surgeon at Ballochmyle Hospital, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Born on 12 July 1934 in Shipley, Yorkshire, he was the son of Charles Foster, a GP, and his wife Dorothy née Cass-Smith. After attending Bradford Grammar School he enrolled at Magdalen College, Oxford to study medicine. He graduated BM BCh in 1960 and, after training at the Middlesex Hospital, worked as a registrar in urology at the Bradford Royal Infirmary. Moving to Scotland he became a senior registrar in the urology department of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, before obtaining his consultant post in Mauchline. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. Among his medical mentors were the surgeons James Rudd Ratcliffe and Robert William Reid and the urologists George Harrison and Charles Lennox Ogilvie Macalister. In 1961 he married Ms McShane and they had a son and two daughters. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf and gardening. He died on 23 October 2007 aged 73.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009261
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First Title value, for Searching Considine, John (1925 - 2008)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by David Arkell
Publication Date 2011-09-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Initially trained as a general surgeon, John Considine later specialised in urology and spent his consultant career at Heartlands Hospital (formerly East Birmingham Hospital) in the West Midlands. He was born in County Clare, Ireland, on 30 January 1925 and was educated at University College Dublin. After graduating in 1949 he trained in Glasgow and London before his appointment as consultant urologist to East Birmingham and Solihull health authorities. Although quietly spoken, with an unassuming manner, he possessed a sharp analytical mind. He was a keen and enthusiastic trainer of surgical registrars, many of whom were initiated into urology under his guidance. His calm and patient approach converted many a young surgeon to take up the specialty as a future career. He published articles on the retrocaval ureter (whilst in training) and developed a suction diathermy electrode for the cystoscopic treatment of superficial bladder tumours. His interest in bladder cancer led him to participate in numerous trials as a member of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), but even this did not dissuade him from continuing to enjoy smoking his pipe. In the days when it was still allowed in hospitals he was easy to track down by the clouds of smoke issuing from the consultant's room! He was a very private individual, rarely mixing socially with colleagues. However, those that did meet him found him to be a true gentleman, always stylishly dressed and a most intelligent conversationalist. His French wife Marie predeceased him. They had three children, two sons, Vincent and Laurence, and a daughter, Marie. He died following a severe chest infection on 27 December 2008.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001435
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First Title value, for Searching Brooman, Peter John Cole (1948 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2014-03-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373697373697
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Peter Brooman was a consultant urological surgeon at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. He was born in London, the son of Edward Brooman, a wholesale newsagent, and Irene Brooman née Ward. He was educated at Purley Grammar School and then studied medicine at Sheffield University. He held an orthopaedic house surgeon post at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and was a house physician at St George's Hospital, Lincoln. During his training he was influenced by B Crawford, J T Rowling and R H Baker. He subsequently gained his consultant position as a urological surgeon in Stockport. Outside medicine, he played table tennis and squash and rode horses. In 1975 he married Sheila Smith. They had no children. Peter Brooman died on 4 January 2011, aged 62. He was survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001514
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First Title value, for Searching Rees, Richard Wellesley Morgan (1935 - 2018)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2019-02-05
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Richard Wellesley Morgan Rees was a consultant urologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He was born on 13 January 1935 in Stourbridge, Staffordshire, the son of Theodore Foulkes Rees, a pharmacist, and Edith Louise Rees née Colley. He studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, qualifying in 1957. Prior to his consultant appointment at Cardiff, he was a house surgeon for the United Birmingham Hospitals and then a registrar at Derby Royal Infirmary and a registrar in urology at the Royal Hospital in Sheffield. At Cardiff he was also an honorary clinical teacher at the University of Wales’ College of Medicine. He was a member of the Welsh Urological Society and the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Rees died on 1 June 2018. He was 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009573
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First Title value, for Searching Gabe, Joel ( - 1989)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379454379454
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Joel Gabe was educated at King's College, London, and the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1925 and graduated MB BS in 1927, gaining the Fellowship in 1931. After junior posts at St Paul's Hospital and at the Royal Northern Hospital, he specialized in urology and was consultant urological surgeon to the Greenwich and Deptford and to the Woolwich and Lewisham Groups for many years until his retirement at the end of 1969, whereupon he became honorary consultant urological surgeon to the same groups. His death was reported to the College by the General Medical Council on 8 December 1989.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007271
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First Title value, for Searching Currie, John Alexander ( - 1984)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374726374726
Occupation General practitioner Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Alexander Currie was a consultant urologist in Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of James Oswald Currie, a medical practitioner, and was educated at Diocesan College ('Bishops') in Cape Town. During the First World War he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. He then went on to study medicine at Guy's in London, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1923 and his MB BS in 1924. He returned to South Africa, where he was a general practitioner in Wynberg, Cape Province. He then went back to London to study urology and obtained his final FRCS in 1938. In the same year he was awarded his masters in surgery. During the Second World War, he served in the South African Medical Corps. After the war he established a private urological practice in Cape Town. He was also appointed to the staff of Groote Schuur Hospital and Victoria Hospital, Wynberg. Currie was president of the Medical Association of South Africa in 1961. After retiring from his private practice in Cape Town, he became a general practitioner on the island of St Helena for a year or so. He was married to Gertie, a former nurse, whom he had met at Victoria Hospital. Currie died on 23 August 1984.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002543
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First Title value, for Searching Barton, Michael Treherne ( - 1976)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
Unknown
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Michael Treherne Barton qualified MB BS in 1961 and worked as research surgical officer at St Paul's Hospital, London, surgical registrar at the Bromley Hospital and junior lecturer in anatomy at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He passed the FRCS in 1969 and was Freemasons Research Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1973. He became lecturer at the Institute of Urology in 1973 and died suddenly on April 7, 1976 leaving a wife, Mina and a son, Guy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006296
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First Title value, for Searching Slater, Noel Stephen ( - 1976)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379125379125
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Noel Stephen Slater qualified MB BS in 1940 from University College Hospital. He served in the RAMC with the rank of Captain and was appointed surgeon to Edgware General Hospital. He became surgeon in charge of the urological department of the Hendon District Hospital and published papers on peptic ulcer and jejunal diverticulitis in the *British journal of surgery* in 1951-52. He was an associate member of the British Association of Urological surgeons. He is thought to have died in 1976.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006942
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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Mark Phillip James (1965 - 2017)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2020-07-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381543381543
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Mark Phillip James Wright was a consultant urological surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born on 15 September 1965, the son of Phillip J Wright and Margaret Jean R Wright née Hern. He had a brother, James. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London, qualifying in 1990. He gained his FRCS in 1994, an MD from Bristol in 2001 and the specialist urological FRCS, also in 2001. He was a leading kidney and prostate surgeon and a pioneer of keyhole and robotic surgery in Bristol. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. In 1995, he married Phedra Kibi L Osborne. They had four children, Eliza, Oliver, Hector and Oscar. Mark Wright died on 22 April 2017 at the age of 51. The Mark Wright surgical fellowship has been established in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Mason, Joseph Ian Campbell ( - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching McCalister, Alexander (1925 - 2018)

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by Peter McCalister
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2018-05-01
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Alexander McCalister (known as 'Alex') was a consultant general surgeon at the Ulster Hospital. He was born in Belfast on 6 June 1925 and grew up in rural Northern Ireland in relatively poor circumstances: his mother cooked on an open peat fire and they had no piped water in the home. His family suggested that Alex might become a carpenter, but his head teacher encouraged him to consider a career in medicine. He gained a local government scholarship and studied at Queen's University Belfast, qualifying in 1948 with first class honours. In 1968, Alex was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, County Down and worked there until his retirement in 1989. He also specialised in urology. He was known as a very good surgeon - quick, deft and neat - and urological colleagues would come to him if they needed an operation themselves. He was well-liked by staff and his nickname on the wards was 'uncle'. He was known for carrying out very early ward rounds, often at 6.30 am, which meant he could begin operating an hour and a half before everyone else. Alex joined the Territorial Army as a young doctor and became a colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, commanding his own unit, the 204 Field Hospital. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration, became a Knight of St John of Malta, and was an honorary surgeon to HM The Queen. He enjoyed travel and was interested in poetry, birds, trees, flowers and history (particularly military history). He made sure he kept up with current events, buying two newspapers every day. He was a deeply spiritual and religious person, and took his prayer book everywhere he went. He played the fiddle, having been taught by his father, who was a very skilled player. Alex met Claire Johnston while he was teaching medical students. They married in 1955 and had four children. The youngest became a doctor. After Claire's death in 1985, Alex married Heather Hector in 1989. She died in 2013. Alex died on 26 January 2018 from cardiac failure, aged 92, and was survived by three of his children. Sadly, he was predeceased by his eldest daughter, who died a fortnight before him.
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First Title value, for Searching Hurford, Frank Reuben ( - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380878380878
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Frank Hurford qualified in Bristol and after junior posts joined the RAMC where he became a surgical specialist, taking the FRCS whilst still serving. After the war he lectured in anatomy at King's College Hospital before going back to Bristol where he specialised in urology, becoming senior registrar to the genitourinary department at the United Bristol Hospitals. He was appointed a consultant surgeon to Lichfield Hospital Group, where he developed a special interest in urology. He was an early advocate of immediate retropubic prostatectomy for acute retention of urine. He died on 26 November 2001, survived by his son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008695
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First Title value, for Searching Darke, Geoffrey Harold ( - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Rushford, Anthony Joseph (1924 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching England, Ernest James (1927 - 2012)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378786378786
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ernest James England was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, on 26 May 1927. His father, Ernest Roy England, was a bus driver who had served at Gallipoli and in France during the First World War; his mother, Bessie England née James, was a businesswoman. He attended Claremont State School and Wesley College, where he was school captain, and then, in 1946, went to the University of Western Australia. He transferred to the University of Adelaide a year later and qualified with the MB BS in 1951. He held junior posts at the Royal Perth Hospital, and then went to the UK. From 1956 to 1957 he worked at the Royal Gloucester Infirmary and Brompton Hospital. Between 1962 and 1963 he was based at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1963 he was appointed to his post in Perth. He retired in 1990. At the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons he was an examiner in urology, secretary and then chairman of the Western Australia state committee, and a member of the board of urology. From 1985 to 1986 he was president of the Urological Society of Australia. He played hockey and first class cricket for Western Australia and South Australia, and league football for East Perth in 1945. In June 1953 he married Wendy Gweneth Nunn. They had a daughter and a son, who is a urologist and a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Ernest James England died on 5 December 2012. He was 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Husain, Imtiaz (1943 - 2016)

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by Liaqat Chowoo
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-10-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381519381519
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Imtiaz Husain, known as 'Tazi', was a consultant urological surgeon at Bedford Hospital. Educated at King Edward's Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, where he obtained his medical degree, Tazi went to Oldham in 1965 for a house post. He was then a registrar at Northampton General in 1969. After locums at Bedford Hospital, Tazi moved to Abu Dhabi to work at the Central Hospital. Here his planning skills came to the fore when he set up the urology department, edited a book *Tropical urology* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1984) and was the founder of the *Emirates Medical Journal*. After a decade, he moved to King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to teach medical students at the hospital. Another decade later he returned to the UK to join Bedford Hospital as a consultant urological surgeon. Here he made an enormous contribution to the development of urology services as well as taking on the role of divisional clinical director for surgery and anaesthetic services for some time. Tazi had many interests outside of work. He was instrumental in setting up the Tempsford Memorial to honour the women secret agents who were flown out of RAF Tempsford to aid the Resistance in Europe during the Second World War. This was unveiled by the Prince of Wales in 2013. He was also working on another project which he set up in January 2016 called the World Wars Muslim Memorial Trust. He made the mosaic for the memorial monument (just as he had done for the memorial in Tempsford), which he hoped would be set up at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire to remember Muslim soldiers who fought for the UK in both world wars. He had met the Prince of Wales about this issue. Two weeks after he passed away the National Memorial Arboretum agreed to this proposal. Tazi enjoyed life to the full. In the last few years he wrote a blog about his activities and anything that came to his mind. He travelled to his bolt hole in Paphos and to France regularly. He enjoyed fly fishing and carpentry, and was a self-taught portrait painter and cook. With so many pastimes he used to say he had been in the wrong profession! He enjoyed being with his family and grandchildren, with friends and colleagues especially over a glass or two of prosecco! In 1972 Tazi married Shama. They had two children, a daughter (Mishal) and a son (Haider). Tazi Husain died peacefully at home in London surrounded by his family on 19 November 2016. He was 73.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Domhnaill, Seamus (1923 - 2006)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-03-21 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377349377349
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Seamus O'Domhnaill was a consultant urological surgeon in Limerick, Ireland. He was born in Cork on 22 January 1923, the second son of Padraig O'Domhnaill, a school inspector, and Mary O'Domhnaill née Cotter. He attended national schools in Glasheen and Fermoy, Cork, and then Christian Brothers secondary schools, also in Fermoy and Cork city. He then studied medicine at University College, Cork, from 1940 to 1946, qualifying MB BCh BAO. He was a house surgeon at the North Charitable Infirmary, Cork, at Providence Hospital, St Helens, Lancashire, and at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, Liverpool. He was then a resident medical officer and registrar at Liverpool Children's Hospital. He went on to hold posts as a surgical registrar at the General Hospital, Burnley, and St Helens Hospital. He subsequently returned to Ireland, where he was appointed county surgeon for County Tipperary. He then became a consultant surgeon for the Mid-Western Health Board, at the Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick. He gained his FRCS in 1951. He was an examiner for the final fellowship examination of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was a fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the International College of Surgeons, and an associate fellow of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the Irish Society of Urology. Outside medicine, he was an international judge in pointer and setter trials, and trained gun dogs. He enjoyed deep sea fishing and shooting. In 1950 he married Ellen Fenton, who was also medically qualified. They had three girls and two boys. Three of their children followed their parents into medicine. Tragically, Seamus O'Domhnaill died on 1 November 2006 after being trampled by a herd of cattle while out walking his dog. He was 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Mikhael, Boushra Riad (1936 - 2012)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-08-25 2019-09-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381425381425
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Boushra Riad Mikhael was chief of urology at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Born in Assyout, Egypt on 2 June 1936, his parents were Riad and Labibal Mikhael and he was the tenth of their eleven children. After attending medical school in Cairo he travelled to the UK and studied at the Institute of Urology in London. He passed the fellowship of the College in 1968. Two years later, in 1970, he moved to Ottowa in Canada and joined the staff of the Queensway Carleton Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario where he worked as an adult and paediatric urologist for 30 years. An assistant professor of surgery at the University of Ottawa, he was also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. His religion was central to his life. An elder at Rideauview Bible Chapel for over 25 years, he was an itinerant bible teacher and also conducted hundreds of Bible studies at his own home. Known to have memorised large sections of the Bible he spent considerable amounts of his time preaching, teaching, praying and counselling. When he retired from medicine this became his full time occupation. He was chair of the board of Galilee Bible Camp, board member of Counsel Magazine, the Ontario Workers and Elders Conference and the Rise Up international conferences. In the last weeks of his life he completed a book *The desire of all nations*, one of many he wrote on religious topics. On 25 July 1964 he married Nadia née Tadros who was also medically qualified. They had two sons, Sam and Joseph, who also became doctors. He died of colon cancer on 26 January 2012 aged 75 and was survived by his wife, sons, daughters-in-law, Patti and Heather, and granddaughters Annie, Alyssa and Katie.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Robert Wilson (1940 - 2019)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-28 2022-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon
Details Robert Wilson Thomson, known as Bob, was born in Scotland and educated at Ayr Academy. He entered Glasgow University initially to study modern languages but switched to medicine after a year, graduating MB, ChB in 1964. After early house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, he worked as a surgical registrar in Carlisle at the Cumberland Infirmary and then as a senior surgical registrar in Birmingham. In 1974 he was appointed consultant in surgery to the North Tees General Hospital, Stockton-on Tees, and found it very stimulating to be part of the development of this new facility, eventually taking on management as well as clinical roles. Gradually, as his medical interests developed, he specialised more in urology and, in the mid-1980s, became the head of the new department of urological surgery, providing a service across the Tees to the Hartlepool General Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Locally, he was secretary of the Hadrian Surgical Club and was responsible for organising its first overseas meeting in Norway. On retirement in 2001 he threw himself into a variety of activities. He returned to Glasgow University to complete an MPhil in medical ethics in 2003 and chaired an independent monitoring board of the local Kirklevington Prison for seven years. Active in Probus, an organisation promoting socialising among the retired, he was chairman for a while and took part in many enjoyable outings. He and his wife Elizabeth, known as Betty, were very hospitable and sociable both with hospital colleagues and the wider community, for example they took it upon themselves to organise the coconut shy at fund raising events for Stockton’s Ropner Park. He died on 15 April 2019 aged 79, survived by Betty, his wife of 53 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Sanger, Bernard James (1910 - 1990)

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First Title value, for Searching Gregory, Ian Langdale ( - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378721378721
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ian Langdale Gregory qualified MB ChB from Manchester University in 1943 and passed the Conjoint Diploma the same year. He worked as supernumerary chief assistant at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and then became surgical registrar to the Withington Hospital, Manchester. He moved to London and was associate registrar at Guy's before becoming senior registrar in urology at St Peter's Hospital. He was a fellow of the Manchester Medical Society and an associate member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He moved to the USA and joined the American College of Surgeons. He was appointed to the staff of the Little Falls Hospital, New York State in 1972 and was probably still working there when he died on 3 August 1979.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006538
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First Title value, for Searching Wiggishoff, Cyril Charles (1923 - 2015)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-04-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379853379853
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Cyril Charles Wiggishoff was chief of staff at St Joseph's Hospital, Chicago. He was born in Paris, France, on 17 March 1923, the son of Charles Cecil Wiggishoff, company director of his family's perfumery factory, and Marguerite Wiggishoff née Rouy. His paternal great grandfather, Jacques Charles Wiggishoff, was mayor of Montmartre and a noted bibliophile. From the age of five, Wiggishoff was raised in South Africa by an aunt and uncle. He was encouraged to read and developed a lifelong passion for books. He attended Durban Preparatory High School and, at the age of 17, gained an open scholarship to study medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After two years, he enlisted as an able seaman in the South African Navy. He was at first assigned to a Norwegian whaling vessel, which had been adapted to fight. He was later commissioned as a sub-lieutenant, volunteered for submarine service and served with the Royal Navy's Seventh Submarine Squadron at Rothesay, Scotland. At the end of the Second World War, he returned to his medical studies, this time at Brasenose College, Oxford. He qualified in 1950 and held house posts at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He later trained at Manchester Royal Infirmary and St Peter's Hospital for the Stone, London. In the late 1950s, he went to Chicago, to the University of Illinois, as a Fulbright fellow. He then went back to Johannesburg in private practice, but returned to Chicago to continue his career in surgery. He spent 23 years as chief of staff at St Joseph's Hospital and was also a clinical associate professor of urology at the University of Chicago. Outside medicine he enjoyed history, wine, travel and sailing. In 1948, he married Stella Kyle. They had a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Michele. He later married Marianne. In 1987, he and his wife moved to Fountain Hills in Arizona. Cyril was president of the friends of the local library. He died on 20 February 2015 at the age of 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Freshman, Edgar Samuel (1899 - 1988)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379452379452
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Edgar Freshman received his medical education at Manchester University and at the London Hospital qualifying MB ChB in 1922 and passing the Conjoint examination two years later. He spent most of the early years of his professional life in Manchester and Birmingham, before moving to London, where he held posts at St Mark's and the London Hospitals. He moved to Canterbury in 1938 and spent the rest of his career there, as urological surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and other hospitals in the area. He retired in 1965 and died on 28 October 1988, aged 89, survived by his wife Tress and his children and grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007269
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First Title value, for Searching Anikwe, Raymond Maduchem (1935 - 2008)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2008-09-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372736372736
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Raymond Anikwe was a leading urological surgeon in Nigeria. He was born on 5 June 1935, the son of Chief Lawrence Akunwanne and Helen Oyeigwe Anikwenze in Nnobi, Anambra State, Nigeria. He was educated at St Mary Primary School, Umulu, and St Joseph Primary School, Onitsha. In 1951 he entered the Government College, Umuahia, where he excelled at sports, as well as his studies, winning a Nigerian Central Government scholarship to the Nigerian College of Technology, Ibadan. After two years there he won a scholarship from the Government of Italy to study medicine at the University of Rome. He learnt Italian, and obtained the degree of MD in July 1964. After qualifying he served as a pre-registration house officer and senior house officer in general surgery in Turin, and then went to the UK as a senior house officer at Dudley Guest Hospital. He was later a registrar in surgery (urology) at the Central Middlesex Hospital. From there he went to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a research fellow, studying urodynamics with a special interest in urethral resistance. In 1973 he returned to Nigeria as a lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and consultant surgeon at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu. He rose through the academic ranks to become professor of surgery (urology) in 1978. He served on numerous committees: he was chairman of the medical advisory committee, director of clinical services and training at Enugu (from 1978 to 1980), chief executive and medical director (from 1982 to 1985), provost of the college of medicine and medical sciences and deputy vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria Enugu campus in 1986. In 1987 he went to Saudi Arabia as professor of urology and consultant urologist at the King Faisal University and King Fahd Hospital. In 1999 he returned to Nigeria to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, until he established his own private hospital, the Galaxy Urology Specialist Hospital, Enugu, which was equipped with the latest endoscopic facilities. He published extensively and was a member of numerous learned societies. In 2007 he received the prestigious D’Linga gold award by Corporate and Media Africa Communications Ltd for his contribution to nation building through the medical profession. In 1974 he married Gladys Ngozi (née Ojukwu) and they had six children, of whom two became doctors. He died on 17 May 2008.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000553
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First Title value, for Searching Struthers, Norman William (1927 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2020-02-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381387381387
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Norman William Struthers was chair of the urology department at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He was born in Kilbarchan, Scotland on 31 December 1927. His father, Ian Loudon Struthers, was a soft drink manufacturer; his mother was Mary Elizabeth Struthers. He attended Spiers’ School in Beith and then University of Glasgow Medical School, where he graduated in 1950 with a distinction in surgery. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a medical specialist and spent two years in Canada, gaining his licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada. He returned to Scotland, where he continued his studies in urology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Hammersmith Hospital in London. In 1963, he became a senior lecturer in surgery at the London Hospital Medical College. From 1964, he was a consultant urologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and a clinical fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 1968, he was awarded a urological prize by the British Association of Urological Surgeons. A year later, he moved to Toronto. Initially he worked with Bill Kerr as a fellow at the Banting Research Foundation. The following year, he joined Tommy Russell and Vince Colapinto at St Michael’s Hospital, and later chaired the urology department. He was also an associate professor at the University of Toronto (from 1986 to 1995). He retired in 1997. He was an early practitioner of kidney transplantation; he was a member of the team that performed the first renal transplant at Hammersmith Hospital and soon afterwards performed the first such transplant in Glasgow. But his true research passion was in urodynamics of both the upper and lower urinary tract. He established a urodynamic laboratory at St Michael’s and also collaborated with the division of neurosurgery and neurology, managing patients with spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis. Outside medicine, he loved to travel and to garden, and was a keen sportsman, from fly fishing to car racing, tennis, skiing and sailing. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. In March 1958, he married Barbara Mary Bruce. They had two sons – Alexander (Sandy) Norman and Ian Bruce – and four grandchildren, Jack, Peter, Emma and Norman. Predeceased by his wife in 2012, Norman Struthers died on 21 March 2015 at the age of 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Solley, Rupert (1910 - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Luck, Richard John (1931 - 2019)

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by Carole Luck
Publication Date 2020-11-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/383978383978
Occupation Renal surgeon Vascular surgeon Urological surgeon
Details John Luck was a urological surgeon in Windsor and Maidenhead. He was born on 26 February 1931, the son of Thomas Richard Luck, a manager, and Beatrice Christina Luck née McKenzie. He was educated at Southgate County Grammar School and then won an entrance scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1954 with two prizes in surgery and one in medicine. His first clinical post was as a house surgeon to Arthur Dickson Wright. He obtained his FRCS in 1959 and became a senior registrar at St Mary’s and gained a Fulbright scholarship as a surgical fellow to Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. There he became a renal transplant officer working on unrelated and cadaver renal transplantation. He also wrote three chapters on renal and bladder function for his professor, William Tait ‘Bill’ Irvine, as a contribution to *The scientific basis of surgery* (London, J&A Churchill, 1965) and several papers on renal transplantation. He then returned to St Mary’s, where he worked for Felix Eastcott. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon in Windsor with one session a week as a lecturer and honorary consultant at St Mary’s. He was initially a vascular and renal surgeon, but eventually specialised mainly in urology. He also continued his academic work, publishing further peer-reviewed papers and was co-author of General surgery in gynaecological practice (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1971) with Stanley Simmons. He established a renowned urology practice in Windsor and Maidenhead. His talents included his clinical ability, his ability to diagnose and judge how to care for his patients and his considerable technical skills. He also retained the ability to teach and perform research. His many registrars obtained senior posts throughout the UK and internationally. His dissections were beautiful and achieved with apparent ease and sparseness of effort. He was patient, modest and never arrogant. He enjoyed cricket, tennis, golf, skiing, painting and drawing. Most of all, he had a very happy and fulfilling family life. Sadly, his first wife Heather (née Kerr) died of cancer in her fifties and he then married Carole (née Ranscombe), a consultant radiologist in Windsor. He had three children from his first marriage, a son from his second and two stepchildren. He died on 17 December 2019 at the age of 88. He was loved and respected by all and will be sadly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Mortensen, Peter James (1926 - 2007)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2009-03-13 2012-03-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372786372786
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Jim Mortensen was a urological surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia, on 15 May 1926, the only child of Henry Newman Mortensen and Lorna née Bray, who were both general practitioners. His father went to England in the early 1930s to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS Edinburgh, returning in 1937 to Melbourne to found the urological unit at St Vincent's Hospital. He was also president of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand on three occasions and, in 1964, was the first Australian to be made an honorary member of British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). His mother Lorna specialised in anaesthetics, was a Nuffield scholar at Oxford and subsequently returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital as a consultant anaesthetist. Jim was educated by the Jesuits as a boarder at Xavier College, where he rowed in the first VIII and became a school prefect. He studied medicine at Melbourne University, residing at Newman College. After qualifying, he was a resident at St Vincent's Hospital, where he received permission to marry at the end of 1950. After three years as a resident he went to England, to work at St Peter's Chertsey, where he passed the FRCS. He returned to Melbourne as assistant urologist on his father's unit. In 1959 he won the Babcock travelling fellowship to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then led by Reed Nesbit, the doyen of transurethral resection. There he learned the new Bricker technique of ileal conduit urinary diversion. He returned to St Vincent's in 1966 to become head of the department, remaining in charge until he retired in 1988. Under his leadership St Vincent's became one of the leading urological units in the world, developing transplant surgery in the 1960s and installing the first extracorporeal lithotriptor in Australia. He was also consultant urologist to Williamstown and Box Hill hospitals from 1957 to 1973, worked at Swan Hill District Hospital from 1970 until he retired in 1994, and also worked in Indonesia and India, encouraging young surgeons from those countries to visit St Vincent's. In 1969 Jim followed his father by becoming president of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand. An excellent golfer and tennis player, Jim enjoyed reading, music and his garden. For a time he bred Murray Grey cattle, and he and Margot (née Collins) made several trips by Land Rover to central and Western Australia to see wild flowers in the outback. He and Margot had a long and happy marriage, with eight children and 18 grandchildren. By a sad irony he succumbed to cancer of the prostate which led to spinal cord compression from a metastasis. He died on 28 September 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Christmas, Timothy John (1956 - 2011)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-19 2014-04-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373957373957
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Timothy (Tim) Christmas was a consultant urological surgeon at Charing Cross and the Royal Marsden Hospitals in London and, at his untimely death, was "widely regarded as one of Britains's great urological surgeons". Born in Cheltenham on 2 February 1956, he was educated at Bournemouth School. He won a scholarship to study at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London and stayed on after qualifying to work as house surgeon to Richard Turner Warwick. It was probably this experience that inspired him to specialise in urology. Progressing to registrar posts in Nottingham and Cambridge he spent some time assisting Sir Roy Calne before returning to London to research reconstructive urological surgery and interstitial cystitis at University College and the Middlesex. In 1992 Tim was appointed consultant urological surgeon to the Westminster and Charing Cross Hospitals. By then he was concentrating on urological oncology and reconstructive surgery and he spent 3 months at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles studying a pioneering technique in the use of orthotopic ileocystoplasty. One of his obituarists noted that "he developed a reputation for complex renal surgery, bladder reconstruction and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, attracting referrals from all over Southern England, Wales and overseas.....many of his referrals were for difficult cases and for patients who had previously been declined surgery." It was said of him that he performed more than 1000 open radical prostatectomies in his career. In the year 2000 he was also appointed as a consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was the author of more than 100 papers (including a landmark publication on Fowler's syndrome), eight books, 20 book chapters and well over 100 printed abstracts. Colleagues remembered him for his skills and his keen sense of humour, with a wit which could be somewhat acerbic in the case of those he considered to be taking on too much private work. The other great passion of Tim's life was ornithology and he held bird ringing permits for the UK and Ireland. A member of the RSPB, the British Trust of Ornithology and Birdwatch Ireland, he travelled far and wide on bird ringing expeditions. He produced detailed documentation of these trips to places that included the Falkland Islands, Iceland, North Queensland and Guyana, and closer to home, was planning to ring a pair of peregrine falcons that had set up a nest at Charing Cross Hospital. His death at the age of 55 from a brief illness was a great shock to his family, friends and colleagues. He was survived by his wife, Dr Eithne Mannion, who was a consultant uro-pathologist at Charing Cross and his young son, Dermot.
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First Title value, for Searching Gayen, Sudhanshu Sekkar (1930 - 2014)

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by Indu Gayen
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-08-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378970378970
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Sudhanshu Sekhar Gayen was a surgeon at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, and then a general practitioner. He was born on 1 August 1930 in the Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, the son of Jogendra Nath Gayen, a schoolteacher, and Bimala Bala Betz Gayen, a housewife. His family were landowners and were very well known in the local community. Sudhanshu lost both of his parents when he was very young. He loved school and from an early age wanted to become a doctor. He passed his school matriculation examinations in the first division and thereafter passed all his exams with honours. He was offered a scholarship to study medicine at Calcutta University Medical College. While the scholarship covered his tuition fees, he had to work to cover his living expenses and in his spare time he tutored school students. He passed his MB BS in 1956. Following house posts in Calcutta, Sudhanshu worked as a senior intern in surgery at Ottawa General Hospital, Canada. After a year he decided to move to the UK, where he held a series of senior house officer posts. He worked in the North Middlesex Hospital in north London, in the thoracic surgical unit, where he performed various major and minor operations and procedures, including intercostal intubation, pleural aspiration and bronchoscopy. He then moved to the North Herts and Lister Hitchin hospitals and performed major operations with the hospital consultant. As part of a team of colleagues he was in charge of 45 general and urological beds. At North Staffordshire Infirmary as a senior house officer he performed operations in the neurosurgical unit, including inserting burr holes and Spitz-Holter valves. In 1966 he was offered a post as a registrar in general surgery, orthopaedics and fractures at St Andrew's Hospital, London, during which time he passed his final fellowship examinations of the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges. In 1969 Sudhanshu accepted a post as a registrar in urology and general surgery at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, where his pre- and post-operative care was acknowledged as outstanding by his consultant. He published several unusual cases in journals. He used to say that: 'To be a good surgeon it is not only necessary to perform successful surgery, but it is of paramount importance to provide post-operative care and support to meet individual needs.' In 1974, due to ill health and also exhaustion, he decided, with great personal sadness, to leave his surgical career. In 1978 he entered general practice, where he looked after nearly 4,000 patients. On 27 August 2014 he died after a long illness. He was 84. He was survived by his wife Indu, to whom he had been married for nearly 40 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Bhattacharyya, Samareswar (1919 - 2010)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon
Details Samareswar Bhattacharyya, known as ‘Samar’, was a general surgeon for the West Wales Regional Health Authority. He was born in Calcutta, India on 5 August 1919, the son of a radiologist, and studied medicine at the R G Kar Medical College in the city, qualifying in 1945. The same year he went to England on the liner *Mauretania*. He worked at several hospitals in London, including at the Royal Free and as a senior house officer at the Prince of Wales Hospital. He then moved to Exeter, where he was a resident surgical officer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and subsequently to Hastings, where he worked as a surgical registrar and then as a locum consultant in general surgery and urology until 1968. In his later years he worked in the west Midlands and then for the West Wales Regional Health Authority. He retired to Hereford, where he enjoyed his love of physics and music. He died on 26 April 2010 at the age of 90 from a stroke and was survived by his wife Sheila, three sons (one a neuroradiologist) and two grandsons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009804
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First Title value, for Searching Ingall, John Robert Franklin ( - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380204380204
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ingall received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1952. He gained the London MB BS in the following year. After holding house posts at the Westminster Hospital and surgical registrarships there and at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, he moved to the United States, where he was Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also Program Director, Regional Medical Program for West New York and consultant surgeon to the Sisters of Mercy Charity Hospital. He later practised as a general and urological surgeon at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Jack Ingall died on 26 April 1994 in Hemel Hempstead Hospital, and there was a memorial service at St Alban's.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008021
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First Title value, for Searching Pearse, Robin (1886 - 1956)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377429377429
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1886 at Exeter and educated at King's School, Canterbury and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified in 1909. He was house surgeon at the Great North Central Hospital and house physician at Mount Vernon Hospital for consumption. After a period as assistant pathologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton he took the Fellowship in 1912 and emigrated in 1914 to Toronto. He served during the war of 1914-18 with the 4th Canadian General Hospital in France and later at Salonika, and then went back to Toronto, where he took a distinguished part in surgical affairs and became consulting urological surgeon to the General and Wellesley Hospitals, and Professor of Urology in the University. He was a charter Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and a founder and first President of the Canadian Urological Society. He served as President of the Toronto Academy of Medicine, the Toronto Aesculapian Club, and the North-Eastern section of the American Urological Association. He practised at 711 Medical Arts Building and lived at 12 Hillhurst Boulevard where he died on 19 November 1956. He married Amy Christine Wilburn of Hove, Sussex, who survived him with two married daughters and four grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005246
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First Title value, for Searching Stanley, Bruce Edward Crawford (1915 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377752377752
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Educated at St Mary's Hospital, he qualified as war broke out, served in the RAMC in charge of the surgical division of a General Hospital, was mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After a term as resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone and then as assistant in the surgical unit at St Mary's Hospital, he settled in practice at 9 New Road Avenue, Chatham and was surgeon to the Medway and Gravesend Hospitals group. He was an Associate Member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Stanley lived at 70 Tonbridge Road, Maidstone and died on 23 August 1964 aged 49. Publication: Traumatic pararenal pseudo-hydronephrosis. *Brit J Surg* 1947, 34. 431.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005569
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First Title value, for Searching Rennie, Bruce Clarkson (1904 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Langley, George Frederick (1907 - 1988)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379589379589
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details George Frederick Langley was born on 11 September 1907. He received his medical education at Bristol University where he qualified MB, ChB with honours in 1930 and was awarded the silver medal, and passed the Conjoint examination in the same year. He obtained the Fellowship in 1932 and proceeded ChM at Bristol with distinction in 1934. After junior appointments at Bristol General Hospital and Blackburn Royal Infirmary he moved to Ipswich, where he spent the rest of his professional life, first as medical superintendent and surgeon to Ipswich General Hospital, and then as visiting consultant surgeon to the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital and Felixstowe Hospital. His main professional interest was in urological surgery and he published a number of papers in this field. He gave up his hospital work in September 1972. He died in August 1988, his wife Gladys Marion having died in 1980. There were two sons, George and John, and a daughter, Margaret, of the marriage.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007406
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First Title value, for Searching Mogg, Richard Arthur (1911 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Weaver, John Patrick Acton (1927 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-04-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374061374061
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Patrick Acton Weaver was a consultant urological surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and a senior lecturer in surgery at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee. He was born in Oxford, the son of John Reginald Homer Weaver, professor of history and president of Trinity College, and Stella Mary Georgina Weaver née Acton, an author. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Ampleforth College, and then studied medicine at Oxford and Guy's. He was a house surgeon to Sir John Conybeare at Guy's and an anatomy demonstrator. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, as a medical officer to the Gurkhas in Hong Kong and the King's Own Regiment 4th of Foot. He was a registrar at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, working with George Feggetter. In 1967 he joined Sir Donald Douglas' surgical academic team at the University of St Andrews at Dundee. He gave outstanding service, particularly when the unit moved to the new Ninewalls Hospital and medical school, and he ran the department during the time Douglas was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His surgical interests gradually moved into urology, and he became a consultant urological surgeon in 1976, moving back to Dundee Royal Infirmary. He pioneered innovative techniques for the treatment of female incontinence. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and secretary and then president of the 1921 Surgical Club. After retiring in 1992 he did locums in England, Scotland, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He also worked with the Egyptian Army Medical Corps. He was recognised as an excellent surgeon and teacher. He took a particular interest in developing the careers of his junior staff, especially encouraging female house surgeons to continue in surgery and achieve their full potential. Outside medicine, he was interested in gardening, furniture restoration and art. In 1959 he married Mary Catherine Bainbridge ('Wendy') Robinson, who trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital. They had three children - Elizabeth Anne, George William and Matthew John. John Patrick Acton Weaver died on 10 July 2011, aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001878
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First Title value, for Searching Rose, Michael Barritt (1940 - 2016)

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by Keith Vaughton
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2017-10-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381411381411
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Michael Rose was a highly-respected urologist who worked all his consultant life in Swansea, south Wales. He was born on 4 September 1940 whilst his parents were visiting the Philippines on holiday from south China. His mother, Dorothy Rose née Barritt, went into early labour following treatment with quinine for a bout of malaria. His father, John Richard Rose, was a surgeon who had studied at Queens' College, Cambridge and trained at St Thomas' Hospital, London. In 1932, he became a Methodist missionary doctor in south China, which is where Michael was brought up as a small boy. At the age of one Michael and his parents were incarcerated by the Japanese following their invasion of China. The family suffered much hardship, brutality, hunger and fear until the end of the Pacific war in 1945. Just a year later the family returned to China, where his father was rebuilding the Methodist hospital, only to experience evacuation again as Westerners were thrown out of the country by Communist rebels. Michael started his formal schooling in 1948 at Kent College, Canterbury. From here he gained a place at Queens' College, Cambridge to read medicine. At university he enjoyed cross country running and squash, and throughout his life he had a keen interest in the natural world and natural history. His other interest was bell ringing and it was through this shared enthusiasm that he met his future wife Hilary (née Griffiths) when they were both ringing at Trumpington Parish Church. They were married in the summer of 1964. After qualifying, Michael did house officer and senior house officer posts in Taunton, Canterbury, Bath and Bristol, before returning to St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. From there he was appointed to the senior registrar rotation in urology at Leeds in 1975. He started his consultant career in Swansea in 1977. He was given the responsibility for developing the embryonic urology service and by the time he retired in 2000 there were three consultant urologists. He had a particular interest in endoscopic surgery and stone disease having written his MChir thesis on the 'Urinary inhibition of renal stone formation'. He, with colleagues, introduced percutaneous stone surgery and extracorporeal lithotripsy to Swansea. He was clinical lead urologist and programme director in urology for a number of years. He was first secretary and then chairman of the Welsh Urological Society. In 1994, his department was short-listed for Urology Team of the Year. In 1992, he invited the British Association of Urological Surgeons to hold their autumn meeting in Swansea. A year earlier, Michael took part in a six-month exchange with George McGirr, a consultant urologist from Whangarei in New Zealand. In his time as a consultant Michael published several papers in the *British Journal of Urology* and in the *Annals* of the Royal College of Surgeons. Outside medicine, Michael continued his enthusiasm for bell ringing and his love of the natural world, which complemented the interests of his wife Hilary, who has a PhD in botany. Together they had two sons; Richard is a teacher and Philip is a professional photographer. After his retirement, Michael fulfilled a long-held ambition by studying English literature at Swansea University, for which he was awarded a first-class degree in 2010. Sadly, Michael was diagnosed with a progressive lung condition in the early 1990's. This caused his health and fitness to deteriorate relentlessly, leaving him severely debilitated and dependant on supplementary oxygen. He coped courageously with this illness, keeping himself as active as possible. He died on 11 July 2016 aged 75. He is remembered by all who worked with him as a kind and caring doctor, a talented surgeon with a compassionate personality; a true gentleman.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, John Leighton (1927 - 2020)

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by Andrew Raftery
Publication Date 2020-11-02 2021-10-08
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details John Leighton Williams was a consultant urological surgeon in Sheffield who had a major impact on the development of urological services both locally and nationally. He was born near Swansea and was brought up between Swansea and Gilwern in the Welsh valleys, where his father was a steel works engineer. From being head boy at his grammar school, Leighton, as he was known by his family to avoid confusion with the other John Williams in the family, entered medical training in Cardiff, before transferring to Guy’s Hospital for his clinical studies. He qualified in 1949 and undertook house posts in London. In 1951 he was called up for National Service and was appointed as a lieutenant in the RAMC. After basic training, he spent any available weekend in London in the RCS museum, studying for his fellowship and obtaining his part one the following year. On passing this exam, he was promoted to captain and deployed to Trieste as a medical officer, where he remained for the rest of his service. After leaving the Army, John continued his surgical training, obtaining the fellowship in 1954 and with registrar posts in Bristol, Derby, Sheffield and Los Angeles. On returning from the USA, he was appointed to Sheffield in the mid 1960s as the first pure consultant urologist, replacing ‘Jock’ Anderson when he retired. He spent his consultant career in the department at the Royal Hospital and then at the newly built Royal Hallamshire Hospital. With the advent of renal transplantation, John started performing transplant surgery, carrying out the first successful renal transplant in Sheffield in 1968. Urology and transplantation moved to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in 1978, with John relinquishing his transplant duties shortly afterwards. The new unit was opened by the Prince of Wales, and John and his colleague Miles Fox had the honour of showing Prince Charles around. In 2018, Sheffield transplant unit celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first successful transplant. John, being retired and in his nineties, attended the celebration and cut the cake jointly with the longest surviving successful transplant patient who was still alive with a functioning kidney, 41 years after his transplant. John also had a major interest in renal tract tumours, in particular bladder cancers. He set up and developed local services in Sheffield and the surrounding area. John was honorary secretary of British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) from 1978 to 1981, in this role following on from Eric Charlton Edwards and being succeeded by John Vinnicombe. He worked very closely with the presidents during his secretaryship and collaborated with his friend John Steyn who was honorary treasurer from 1978 to 1981. John also chaired the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology*. He was awarded the BAUS St Peter’s medal in 1991. Following his retirement, John was able to devote more time to other interests, particularly music. He had been a talented musician since childhood and shared a love of opera with his wife Edna. Their special interest was Wagner, especially the Ring cycle, and they travelled widely to attend live performances. After Edna’s death in 2000, John set up a monthly Sheffield U3A group for opera appreciation. He continued performing for many years until a shoulder injury prevented it, playing viola in a string quartet known as the Ellawi Quartet (as in ‘where the ‘ell are we?’). When he wasn’t busy, John also chaired the Sheffield and District Orchid Society for many years. Whatever John did he did well, and he became an expert in growing orchids, wood turning and repairing clocks. He died on 11 September 2020 at the age of 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Pardoe, John George (1870 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Kemble, James (1899 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378830378830
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on April 2, 1899 at Newcastle, New South Wales, a son of the manse, James was educated at the University of Sydney. After qualifying in 1921, he held resident appointments at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and later in London at the West London Hospital and St Bartholomew's. He specialised in urology and was urological clinical assistant at the West London and at St Peter's. During the war he served in the EMS and was surgeon in charge of St Luke's Hospital in Guildford. He was later appointed consultant surgeon and urologist to the London Lock Hospital, Battersea General and the West London. He had a major interest in writing and medical history, being the editor of the *West London medical journal* for 9 years and producing articles both for journals and the national press. He was also the author of five books, all of them historical or medical. His hobbies were ski-ing, golf, painting and drawing. In 1935 he married Dorothy Wright and they had two sons, one of whom is a consultant plastic surgeon and the other, like his grandfather, a Presbyterian minister. He died on 16 October 1978 and is survived by his wife and two sons. Publications: *Idols and invalids* 1933; *Hero-dust* 1936; *Surgery for nurses* 1949; *Napoleon immortal* 1959; *St Helena during Napoleon's exile* 1969.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006647
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First Title value, for Searching Milward, Francis John (1903 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380970380970
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Francis John Milward was a consultant surgeon in Chesterfield. He was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, on 5 April 1903, the son of Henry Tomson Milward, managing director of a needle-making firm, and Elsie Townsend née Newton, the daughter of an Anglican canon. An uncle, Frederick Milward FRCS, was a consultant surgeon at Birmingham General Hospital. He was educated at Rugby and Clare College, Cambridge, and, after his clinical training at St Thomas's, became house surgeon to Sir Percy Sargent and Hugo Romanis. After further junior positions as clinical assistant in the antenatal, children's, ECG and anaesthetic departments, he became surgical registrar at St Thomas's. He was appointed consultant surgeon and surgeon in charge of the urological departments at Chesterfield Royal and Mansfield General Hospitals in 1931, although he continued to deal with orthopaedics, gynaecology and general surgery. In 1931, he married Rosemary Smedley Aston. They had one son, Timothy, who became a plastic surgeon in Leicester, and two daughters, Vanessa and Frances. There are six grandchildren. He was a keen horseman, fisherman and gardener. He died on 15 December 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008787
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First Title value, for Searching Hamer, William Anthony (1919 - 1993)

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First Title value, for Searching Heslop, James Firth (1911 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378758378758
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Firth Heslop was born in South Shields and studied medicine at Manchester University, where he graduated with honours in 1933. As a house surgeon he came under the influence of John Morley and took the FRCS in 1936, becoming in turn registrar to the surgical outpatients department, resident casualty officer, and resident surgical officer at Manchester Royal Infirmary. As senior registrar to Sir Geoffrey Jefferson he began a training in neurosurgery for which his gentleness, operative skill and outstanding clinical judgement would have fitted him admirably. When offered a travelling scholarship to Baltimore he elected to do a year's training in urology but returned home as soon as war was declared to join the RAMC. He served with the 14th Army in Burma and was mentioned in the dispatches and appointed MBE. When the war ended he was appointed consultant surgeon to Park Hospital, Davyhulme, where, as well as building up an excellent service in urology, his reputation in wider subjects, such as diseases of the thyroid, was well established. A few weeks before his retirement he had an accident and never fully recovered from its effects. He died in 1978, aged 67 years, survived by his elder brother, also a Fellow of the College.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006575
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First Title value, for Searching Willinsky, Bernard (1900 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Magri, Joseph (1926 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372475372475
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Joe Magri was a consultant urologist at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. He was born in Valletta, Malta, on 2 March 1926, the son of Francesca and Tancred Magri. He was educated at the Jesuit College and Malta University, where he qualified in 1949. He then moved to England to specialise in surgery. He was a house surgeon in orthopaedics and accident surgery at the City Hospital, Sheffield, and then a surgical registrar in Barnsley, where, with the help of only an anaesthetist and a house physician, he dealt with all the emergencies that arose in that busy mining town. He went on to become an anatomy demonstrator in Sheffield, passed the primary and final FRCS, and became a surgical registrar in Leicester. He was RSO (senior registrar) at St Peter’s Hospital in 1959 and was appointed consultant urologist, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, in 1963. There he published a review of partial cystectomy for bladder cancer and a few years later a ‘no-catheter’ technique for prostatectomy. A genial, friendly man, Joe Magri’s many interests included bridge, sailing, skiing and the opera. He attended Covent Garden regularly. He also built his own Gilbern car from a kit. He met his Swedish wife Margareta Johansson while on holiday in Malta, where she was working as a private secretary in an architect’s office. Together they refurbished a house in Mill Hill. They had no children. He died of metastatic carcinoma on 6 April 2005. He is survived by his widow.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000288
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First Title value, for Searching Farrar, David James (1942 - 2015)

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by Neville Harrison
Publication Date 2015-04-17 2017-01-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379296379296
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details David Farrar was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital in 1978 and, in 1993, with hospital mergers, moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He was born on 3 July 1942 in Rawdon, Yorkshire, the only son of James Farrar, a public health inspector, and Jessie Farrar, a shop assistant. David went to Leeds Grammar School, where he was a keen sportsman, doing well in rugby and boxing, and showed leadership qualities in the school's Combined Cadet Force. He also shone academically and gained a county council award to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1966. Aspiring to a surgical career, David was a prosector in the anatomy department at St Thomas' and, having passed the FRCS in 1971, was drawn to urology after obtaining a research fellowship at the Middlesex Hospital under radiologist Graham Whiteside, who, with Richard Turner-Warwick, was pioneering the new investigative technique of urodynamics combined with bladder imaging. This post led to a career-long interest in bladder dysfunction and female urology, and the award of an MS degree in 1979. Meanwhile David had secured a competitive senior registrar post on the Portsmouth-Norwich rotation under John Vinnicombe, Forbes Abercrombie, Alan Green and Mike Handley Ashken. Whilst a medical student, David met Pom (Pamela Allberry) a St Thomas' nurse, who also had a Yorkshire family background, and they married in 1969. David's interest in urodynamics continued and he became an active member of the International Continence Society, which was formed in 1971 and continues to flourish as a multidisciplinary organisation, embracing research and practice in the management of all aspects of bladder dysfunction. Continuing this special interest, David was a founder member of the British Association of Continence Care in 1990, a pioneer of the multidisciplinary pelvic floor group at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 1999 and of the British Association of Urological Surgeons' section on female and reconstructive urology when it was established in 2001. David was a Royal College of Surgeons' surgical tutor at Selly Oak (from 1984 to 1989) and an examiner in surgery at the RCS. However, there were two areas of postgraduate education that were of special importance to David: the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and the Burberry Club. The RSM urology section held monthly educational meetings in London, which he attended regularly, travelling from Birmingham. He became a member of the council of the section and progressed to treasurer and then president in 2001. The urology section was a pioneer in holding a winter meeting overseas, usually at a ski resort and linking up with a local urology department, and when president David and his wife hosted a very successful meeting in Arosa, Switzerland. These meetings with their informal and relaxed atmosphere were far more significant as opportunities for continuing medical education than those who had not experienced them would believe, and many lasting friendships were formed. The Burberry Travel Club was started in 1981 by a small group of contemporary urologists (Neville Harrison, Patrick Doyle, Chris Gashes, Hugh Whitfield and David Farrar) who met annually to discuss their difficult urological cases and professional issues, and for their wives to share their pressures and family concerns. The group continued to meet for 34 years until David's death (Patrick Doyle had sadly died whilst at a Burberry meeting in 1998) brought the annual club to an inevitable end. David was very efficient and well organised, keeping careful notes and lists of financial and career details. His qualities as a wise and reliable committee member were recognised when reconfiguring the urological services in the Midlands and, after the merger of Selly Oak with Queen Elizabeth hospitals, when he chaired the combined surgical division. David was widely recognised by patients and colleagues as a dedicated, skilful and compassionate clinician. His affability was always apparent, but his wry sense of humour could elude some. However, given the right opportunity, he could entertain with a store of Yorkshire jokes and sport-related stories. David's love of all sport was lifelong, with rugby, golf and cricket being paramount. He lived conveniently close to the golf club in Solihull, which played a major part in his family and social life. Few people knew about David's bowel malignancy before he died unexpectedly on 16 March 2015 following surgery. He was 72. He was survived by his wife Pom (Pamela), daughter, Charlotte, and son, Nic.
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First Title value, for Searching Sturdy, David Eric (1928 - 2016)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-16 2019-06-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381340381340
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details David Eric Sturdy was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales. He was born in Llanybydder, West Wales on 4 May 1928, the only son of William Frederick Sturdy, a boot and shoe repairer, and Anne Mary Sturdy née Davies, the daughter of a carpenter. There were no medical connections in the family. He was educated at the local village school in Llanybydder and Lladyssul County Grammar School. From 1944 to 1946 he studied the first London MB as an external student at Swansea Technical College and Swansea University. He then went on to Guy’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1950. He held house posts at Swansea General Hospital and then carried out his National Service (from 1951 to 1953). He was a regimental medical officer to the first battalion of the Welsh Guards, a junior surgical specialist at the British Military Hospital, Berlin and the RAF Hospital in Rinteln, Germany, and a visiting medical officer to Spandau Prison, which held several war criminals including Rudolf Hess. He maintained his connections with the Welsh Guards: he was an honorary member of the Welsh Guards Officers Club and vice president of the Monmouthshire branch of the Old Comrades Association. He joined the Territorial Army, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel in the RAMC. After finishing his National Service, he gained wide-ranging experience in general and paediatric surgery and in urology. His registrar posts were at the Morriston Hospital, Swansea and the Royal Masonic and the Royal Marsden hospitals, London. He was then a senior registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and at Preston Royal Infirmary. At these centres, he received expert teaching in urology from Alec Badenoch, David Wallace and David Innes Williams, and in general and paediatric surgery from Clifford Naunton Morgan, Harold Edwards, H H Nixon, D Waterston and Ian Orr in Preston. His MS thesis was based on work undertaken at Great Ormond Street under the supervision of David Innes Williams. In 1962, he was appointed as a consultant general and paediatric surgeon to the Royal Gwent Hospital, with a particular interest in urology. He had the ability to perform per-urethral prostatic resection which, at that time, was the yardstick for recognition as a urological surgeon. The only flaw in his CV, he felt, was a lack of experience in vascular surgery and this was rectified in the early sixties by in-post experience and by attendance at vascular surgery meetings and seminars. He felt himself extremely lucky in his appointment at Newport in that he was able to maintain all these branches of surgery. During his consultancy, he always had a great interest in surgical training and especially in the development of surgery and surgeons in Wales. He served as a surgical tutor to the Royal Gwent Hospital, was a surgical adviser to South Wales and was a member and founder secretary of the Welsh board of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was president of the Welsh Surgical Society and a founder president of the Welsh Surgical Travelling Club. He wrote papers on, among other topics, the management of extroversion of the bladder and the surgical management of carcinoma of the oesophagus. He also wrote *Essentials of urology* (Bristol, J Wright, 1974) and *An outline of urology* (Bristol, John Wright,1986), and contributed to *Pelvic pain in women* (Springer-Verlag, 1990). On his retirement, he reflected that he had enjoyed his clinical practice at the Royal Gwent Hospital, felt fortunate to have been able to practise surgery in his native country and to have had the privilege of working with a harmonious band of colleagues. He was also proud of playing his part in influencing and developing surgical practice and organising surgical training in the Principality. Outside medicine, he enjoyed salmon and trout fishing, particularly on the Teifi in West Wales and on the Usk in Gwent. He also played golf and was a member of Newport Golf Club for 30 years. As a medical student, he played football for Guy’s Hospital, United Hospitals, London University and Harrow and Wealdstone. From 1950 to 1962 he played rugby for Swansea, London University Vandals and Preston Grasshoppers. He was later a surgeon and medical officer to Newport Rugby Football Club. In 1954, he married Meriel Griffiths, a nurse. They had three children: Sian Alana, David Huw and Cerys Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Pickard, Robert Stephen (1961 - 2018)

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by David Thomas
Publication Date 2018-11-20
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Robert Pickard was professor of urology at Newcastle University. He was born on 23 June 1961 in Chessington, Surrey, the second of three sons. His father, Peter Pickard, was a laboratory administrator, and his mother, Margaret, was a nurse. The family lived in Leatherhead and Rob attended Kingston Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at the London Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1984. After house jobs in Essex and basic surgical training in Stafford, Rob moved to Newcastle for his higher surgical training in 1989. He obtained his FRCS in 1989 and decided to specialise in urology. In 1995, after two years in research under the supervision of Philip Powell, he gained an MD (with commendation) from Newcastle University. Rob completed the Northern Deanery training scheme for urology in 1996, gained his FRCS (urology) and was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at Freeman Hospital, specialising in reconstruction, the same year. Rob was always interested in service development and helped set up the urology spoke unit in Gateshead, transforming local services and mentoring nurse specialists. Over time he developed a regional service for urethroplasty, adolescent urology and complex reconstruction and became famous for his gentle and holistic approach to patient care. Rob went on to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2004. Rob was always passionate about research and it was no surprise that he embarked upon an academic career with the guidance of David Neal. He was appointed by Newcastle University as a senior lecturer in 2003 and subsequently became a professor of urology in 2009. Rob had a prolific academic record, amassing over 120 peer-reviewed publications, including prestigious high impact publications in *The Lancet* and the *BMJ*. He had a broad research interest spanning basic science through to clinical trials, systematic reviews, health service research and health economic evaluations. He developed a European profile as the chair of the European Association of Urology’s urological infections guidelines group. Where there was a lack of good evidence, he developed clinical trials, including OPEN, ANTIC, SUSPEND and CATHETER. He led the development and implementation of noninvasive urodynamic studies. His large, ongoing national portfolio of high impact studies changed practice and improved patient outcomes. He developed a first-class research infrastructure in Newcastle and mentored many young academics in the process. Rob was a key player in the inception of the British Association of Urological Surgeons’ (BAUS) section of academic urology. Under his guidance, the section’s national meeting became a beacon of excellence, showcasing British urological research. At BAUS 2016 he was awarded the silver cystoscope for his outstanding contribution to training. Working with the BAUS office of education, he helped develop and update the FRCS urology examination, leading the multiple-choice questions and extended matching questions writing group for a number of years. Rob was awarded the St Peter’s medal in 2017 by BAUS at their annual meeting, a prestigious award that acknowledges a notable contribution to British urology. The BAUS medals committee were unanimous in selecting Rob for the award to recognise his outstanding achievements. Outside medicine, he was an avid reader of classic and contemporary literature. His other passions were cryptic crosswords, map-reading and walking, but most importantly family life with his wife Caroline (née Hett), their daughter Rebecca and son Keir (and Bella, the family Labrador). Rob was generally quite frugal and loved travelling everywhere on his Brompton bike, and one of his few indulgences was his collection of Liberty ties. Rob walked the length of the country with Caroline, completing the last leg to Dunnet Head in May 2017. Rob died peacefully at home with his family on 24 July 2018 at the age of 57. He had been diagnosed with a brain tumour in October 2015. Throughout his treatment, he never complained and accepted his condition in his typical calm and gentle manner, showing more concern for others than himself. Rob was a very talented surgeon with a passion for patient care. Through his clinical and academic work, he drove forward clinical knowledge and improved the lives of all those patients and doctors fortunate to have been under his care or tuition. He will be sorely missed, not only in Newcastle but far beyond.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, John Barry (1953 - 2013)

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by Steve Payne
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378312378312
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Barry Anderson was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He was born on 10 April 1952 in Redhill, Surrey, the eldest son of Edward James Anderson, a hospital administrator and ex-bomber pilot, and Catherine Elizabeth Anderson née Boland, a nurse who had emigrated from the west of Ireland. He was educated at Toldene County Primary School and then progressed to grammar school, the only boy to have done so in three years. John's initial inclination was to the arts and, having studied history and languages to A level, he headed to Exeter University to read philosophy. A moment of reflection changed the course of his life. John left Exeter and drove bulldozers in a Fuller's earth works to help him afford to convert to medicine. In 1973 he left for Bristol to start his medical studies. He qualified six years later, decided to become a surgeon and took his fellowship in 1983, beginning, as many did, on rotational training programmes in general surgery. His time with Robin Williamson defined that John's career was going to take a urological turn and in 1988, having completed his ChM, he moved to Sheffield to gain specific urological training with John Williams. After three months in California, in 1991, he went back to Yorkshire to become the first consultant to be appointed with a specific remit to treat urological malignancy, especially the rising tide of early prostate cancer. John's initial consultant career at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital was littered with examples of innovation many years ahead of their adoption as the norm in clinical practice. He established combined oncology clinics, became an oncological sub-specialist and set up a consortium for private practice, all in the early 1990s. His expertise in change management and his easy, winning, charm made John a natural target for leadership to promulgate best practice throughout the NHS. He was one of the first regional cancer leads, was on the national steering group for sub-specialist oncological practice and one of the first chairman of the British Association of Urological Surgeons' (BAUS) section of oncology. John was also a committed and dextrous surgeon, inspirational to his juniors, whether they were wedded to urology as a career or not, and kind, considerate and compassionate to his patients who had surgical treatment of the highest quality in his hands. John had an international reputation for his work in the field of hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer; he sat on European guidelines committees and advised the Medical Research Council, the National Cancer Research Institute, the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths and the Prostate Cancer Advisory Group about the management of urological pelvic malignancy. John was widely published in his field and sat on editorial boards of the *British Journal of Urology International* and the national urological cancer guidance. He also devoted a lot of his time, from 2005, as a trustee of the Prostate Cancer Charity and, subsequently, Prostate Cancer UK. John's persistence, firm fairness and invariable good humour meant that he was universally liked and respected. He was elected to the presidency of BAUS in 2009, but was unable to take up that role as a consequence of the urological cancer to which he devoted so much of his time trying to defeat. John treated his final illness in the way that he approached virtually every other aspect of his life, straightforwardly and with a positive tilt at every bit of adversity. John's many friends were inspired by the way he dealt with the initial uncertainty of his diagnosis, his decision to defer therapy until he became symptomatic and the inexorable decline in his health from the metastatic disease that was evident at the outset. John beat the drum for prostate cancer awareness until he was too unwell to do so. John was a hugely entertaining man whose glass was always more than half full. He loved balanced simplicity and had an informed view on almost everything, no matter how obscure the topic was. His love of spontaneous adventure was a facet of his character that those close to him will recognise as being instantly engaging. John's last year was filled with wonderful memories, which he enthusiastically shared with his family. There may be others who will try to emulate John Anderson, but if anyone manages to recreate that wonderful balance of humour, empathy, fairness and overriding positivity, they will be a unique person indeed. John Barry Anderson died on 27 May 2013. He was 60. He was survived by his three children - Josie Marie, James Edward and Luke Oliver from his marriage to Susan Claire Bailey.
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First Title value, for Searching Price, Bernard Henry (1913 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Waterfall, William Blair (1912 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381165381165
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in Bristol on 20 June 1912, 'Bill' Waterfall's father was Robinson Waterfall, a chemical manufacturer of fertilisers. His mother was Mary Louisa Radley, the daughter of a schoolmaster. He was educated at Bootham School, York, where he won an entrance scholarship, but was taken ill, and passed the London Matriculation from Plymouth Technical College, and was accepted at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He went to the London Hospital for his clinical training and, after qualifying in 1937, was house surgeon to Charles Lindsay and Charles Donald. He was then house physician in the skin department. At the outbreak of the second world war, he joined the RAFVR and worked in Cairo and then field hospitals, for which he was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he was a trainee registrar in urology at the Central Middlesex Hospital, where he was influenced by McNeil Love and Kenneth Walker, and was then registrar at Plymouth General Hospital. He was one of the few general surgeons to specialise in urology, and wrote several papers in the *British Journal of Urology*. He was a very keen ocean racer, and former vice-commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club and a member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. He married a Miss Tivy, daughter of an ophthalmic surgeon in Plymouth, in 1939 and they had three sons, one of whom, Nicholas Brian, became a consultant surgeon in Bedford. Bill Waterfall died on 12 August 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Shepperd, Norman Lyon (1903 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Carver, James Hudner (1897 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380033380033
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in Kanturk, County Cork on 1 June 1897, the son of William Carver, a landowner, and his wife Catherine, née Hannon, James Carver went from St Brendan's College in Killarney to Cork University before going to the London Hospital for his clinical studies. After his early training he developed an interest in urology, and was a registrar at All Saints to Canny Ryall. A keen Territorial, he commanded the 167 City of London Field Ambulance which, on the outbreak of war, was expanded to become the 17th London General Hospital, of which he became Colonel and served throughout the war in this command. After the war he returned to the consultant staff of St Mary Abbots and Lambeth Hospitals and was one of the twenty seven additional foundation members of the newly-formed British Association of Urological Surgeons which met on 3 May 1945. He wrote a number of papers on urological subjects, and continued to be a keen Territorial and an active member of the Chelsea Clinical Society. He became secretary to the Territorial Army Medical Officers' Association, and was consultant surgeon to the Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial Hospital. He married Aileen Penelope, the younger daughter of Commander Norman Craig-Lockhart (RN) in 1951. Apart from the TA his other interests were foreign travel, food and wine. He died on 12 April 1993 survived by his wife and their only son.
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First Title value, for Searching Kennedy, Michael Leo (1903 - 1985)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26 2022-08-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379563379563
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Michael Leo Kennedy, always known as Leo, was born in Dublin on 18 July 1903, one of 11 children of a surgeon, Denis Kennedy, who worked at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, and Mary, née Langan. Five of his siblings became doctors. He was educated at Belvedere College, Clongowes Wood College and University College, Dublin, where he won gold medals in anatomy and surgery. He qualified in 1926 and, after appointments at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, he came to England, where he worked as a resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital, London, with John Thomson-Walker and John Swift Joly, and then at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. He was later appointed as a consultant general surgeon with a special interest in urology at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, where he worked until his retirement. He was particularly interested in transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder as there were two dye manufacturers in the area using beta naphthylamines, a carcinogen. His hobbies included golf and bowls. He married Winifred Shepherd in 1936 and had two sons, Michael and David, both doctors, and one daughter, Jennifer. He died on 18 March 1985. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 7 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Leberne, Carl Frederick (1933 - 1985)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379596379596
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Carl Frederick Leberne received his professional education at the University of Sydney, whence he qualified MB, BS in 1955. After his training years at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, he specialised in surgery, beginning as a demonstrator in anatomy at Sydney University in 1958. On coming to Britain he held registrarships at the Hammersmith, London and West Middlesex Hospitals before obtaining first the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1961 and then the English Fellowship in 1962. Returning to Australia he was appointed teaching registrar in urology at the University of Queensland in 1964 and gained his FRACS in 1966. Most of his life was spent in the practice at Albury and Wodonga, Victoria, where he contributed extensively to the development of the area medical services, especially in urology. From 1982 until his death he built up a medico-legal practice in Sydney. A man of great energy, enthusiasm and imagination, well-known and respected for his expertise in his professional life, he was also widely educated and informed in the fields of literature, art and the theatre. He greatly enjoyed the outdoor life, especially water sports in which he met his death while surfing, on 8 April 1985, aged 52. He was survived by his wife, Pat, and their son and daughter, Christopher and Melissa.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Melvyn Roland Griffiths (1933 - 2018)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2019-02-05
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Urologist Urological surgeon
Details Melvyn Roland Griffiths (Mel) Robinson was a consultant urologist at Pontefract General Infirmary. He was born on 17 May 1933 in Wolverhampton, the son of Noah Robinson, a managing director in the pressed steel industry, and Hilda Emily Robinson née Griffiths, a secretary. He attended St Agnes’ Preparatory School in Willenhall, Staffordshire and then Wolverhampton Grammar School, and went on to study medicine at Charing Cross Medical School. He qualified in 1957. He was a house surgeon at Harrow Hospital and at the Charing Cross unit at Kingsbury Hospital (in obstetrics), and then a casualty officer at Charing Cross Hospital. From January 1960 to December 1962 he was a medical officer in the Colonial Service and for the northern Nigerian Government. On his return to the UK, he became an orthopaedic registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. He was then a surgical registrar at Mount Vernon Hospital and at St James’ Hospital, Balham. From 1969 to 1972, he was a senior registrar and research fellow at St Peter’s Hospitals, Institute of Urology, London, where he was influenced by John Blandy, John Douglas Fergusson and David Innes Williams. In 1972 he was appointed as the first consultant urologist at Pontefract General Infirmary, and at Castleford and Goole hospitals, an appointment he held until his retirement in December 1995. From 1990 to 1995 he was director of surgery at Pontefract General Infirmary. He was also an honorary senior lecturer in clinical urology at the Institute of Urology, Middlesex and University College Hospital Medical School, London. He described the expansion of the urology department during his time at Pontefract: ‘…new therapeutic techniques & associated technology were rapidly developing. It was very satisfactory during my time as a consultant introducing new therapeutic techniques, urodynamics, ESWL [extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy], clinical audit, urology nurse specialist, laser surgery, laparoscopic surgery to the unit.’ He was also able to take part in research: ‘I was … fortunate to be invited by Mr Philip Clark and Mr Bob Williams to participate in the weekly meetings in the Urological Dept at Leeds General Infirmary. It was there that I met the late Professor E C Cooper and Mr Philip Smith who introduced me to the EORTC (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer). This allowed me to participate in clinical research with many organisations and departments, including MRC [Medical Research Council], The Department of Experimental Cancer Research at Leeds, and the Institute in Cardiff. This enabled me to introduce many new urological techniques at Pontefract including the use of PSA [Prostate-Specific Antigen] in the control of Prostatic Cancer and … systemic chemotherapy for bladder cancer.’ He was a member of the advisory committee of the Yorkshire Regional Cancer Organisation, of the testicular tumour research group of the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority and the Medical Research Council’s working groups on testicular cancer and superficial bladder cancer. He was secretary of the British Prostate Group. He was a member of the British Association of Surgical Oncology, the European Urological Society and the International Urological Society. Outside medicine, he enjoyed tennis, soccer, gardening, local history, rambling and travel. In 1972 he married Rosalind Kitching, a personal assistant. They had two children – Emma Claire and Matthew James. Robinson died on 14 December 2018. He was 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Burke, Jeremiah (1913 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378570378570
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Jeremiah Burke was born at Douglas, Cork, on 19 February 1913 the son of Jeremiah Burke, a farmer and his mother was Ellen O'Reagan, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Christian College, Cork, and at University College, Cork (National University of Ireland), where he gained the Hutchinson Stewart Scholarship in anatomy and a scholarship in physiology, in addition to other university scholarships. He graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1937 and held resident posts at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and Paddington Hospital, London. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and served until 1946, with distinction in the Middle East, India, Ceylon and the Far East, reaching the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. Following demobilization Jeremiah Burke was appointed registrar and later senior surgical registrar to St James's Hospital, Balham, and clinical assistant to St Peter's Hospital for Stone. In 1953 he became consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital and just before retirement honorary senior lecturer to St George's Hospital Medical School. He was a full member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a member of the International Society of Urology. His main interest was urology, but he continued to carry out some general surgery so that he could teach good basic surgery to his registrars, housemen and students. His teaching was greatly appreciated and he also lectured in the courses for the FRCS. Jerry Burke was a good clinical and technical surgeon and had no time for gimmicky surgery. He was outspoken, dogmatic, conservative, with a fine sense of humour. He was a keen walker, ornithologist, naturalist and historian, he liked sailing and hill climbing and enjoyed visiting Scotland, Italy and Spain. He never married. He died on 17 January 1981 just three years after his retirement.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006387
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First Title value, for Searching Peters, James Sturrock (1913 - 2010)

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by Vale Jim
Publication Date 2011-11-11 2015-03-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373757373757
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Jim Peters died at home in Melbourne on 28 September 2010. The caption on his obituary in *The Melbourne Age* on 4th October epitomised his life: 'Amateur champion kicked goals on the field and as a medical specialist.' He loved his profession, his family and his sport. Jim grew up in Victorian country towns where his father, Victor - a WWI veteran, taught at various State primary schools. Jim was an outstanding footballer in his school days and as a boarder at St Patrick's College Ballarat, he kicked 141 goals in the 1930 championship side for which he was awarded a gold medal. A keen sportsman at Melbourne University he is pictured on the back dust jacket of *The Ties that Bind (History of Sport at Melbourne University)* hitting a six into the grounds at Ormond College in front of Trinity College wicket keeper, the future historian - Manning Clark. Resident at Newman College from 1931, a Freshman Blue for football Jim played in and was later Captain of the Newman side once kicking 18 goals against Queens in an Intercollegiate match in 1937. He played with the Melbourne University Blacks from 1931, Captain in 1934 and in the 1935 A Grade Premiership side and also captained various Intervarsity and Victorian Amateur Teams. In 2007 he was delighted to be inducted by the Victorian Amateur Football Association as one of the Inaugural Legends of the game. He graduated MB BS in 1937 the year he was president of Newman College Students Club. After residency at St Vincent's Hospital in 1938 and 1939, he served with the AIF 1940-1945, initially being posted to North Africa with the 6th Division and later with the 9th in Tobruk and El Alamein, retiring as Lieut Col MID. After the war he became a resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was awarded his Master of Surgery (Melb) in April 1946 and married Moira O'Collins. Shortly afterwards the newlyweds sailed for England where Jim became a Resident Surgical Officer at St James Hospital London and was admitted a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons on 12th June 1947. Following post-graduate studies in the United States they returned to Melbourne in 1948 and he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons on 5th December 1948. He was appointed Honorary Urologist at Prince Henry's Hospital in 1953 and the founding specialist in urology at the Repatriation Hospital Heidelberg (now part of the Austin Hospital) in 1957. He served as President of the Australasian Urological Society 1961-2 and as Adjoint Delegate to the International Society of Urology (SIU) 1967-1973. In 2008 the Austin Health Urology Unit honoured Jim, the first Urologist at the Repatriation General Hospital and as such - pioneer of their department by the establishment of the Jim Peters Fellowship for Urological Research. When he died the Austin in its obituary in *The Age* Oct 1st - noted how Jim had 'championed the training of Australian Urologists within Australia. His immense contribution is commemorated by the Jim Peters Fellowship in Urological Research'. For many years Jim enjoyed presenting papers and attending urological speciality meetings in Australia and overseas particularly in Rio de Janeiro (1961) when he was President of the Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand. Later conferences included Moscow, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Paris and Vienna. Jim valued the friendship of his colleagues, many of whom when visiting Melbourne stayed at his home in Toorak and later, when he retired, at the farm near Kilmore where he was able to show them the Angus cattle he and Moira bred as well as kangaroos and wombats! For relaxation he enjoyed playing golf at Peninsula Country Golf Club and Metropolitan Golf Club where on his death he was the longest serving member - 73 years. Initially playing off 5 in his early years he later went on to win events including Captains, Knox, Umphelby (2) at Metropolitan and five 1939-1945 Service trophies at Peninsula. He also had a keen interest in racing and with his friend the late Sir Maurice Nathan had many successes with his favourite horse, Penny Edition, including the 1981 Toorak Handicap. Jim and Moira had a family of five sons and three daughters. He constantly encouraged his children and was immensely proud of them: the doctors - Marion, Professor Medicine, UCSF and Justin, a Melbourne Urological Surgeon, the lawyers - Stewart, Joanna and James, the veterinarian - Bronwen, the stockbroker - Mark and the engineer - Stephen. Jim's Requiem Mass was held at Newman College Chapel, Melbourne University on October 6th where he was farewelled by his extended family and many friends including representatives from his medical, football, racing and golfing days. He is survived by Moira, his eight children, seventeen grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, John Pritchard (1926- 2020)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Robert Morgan
Publication Date 2020-04-14
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details John Pritchard Williams was a consultant urological surgeon to St Peter’s Hospital, Greenwich District Hospital and King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers in London. He was also an honorary consultant urologist to the Army. ‘JP’, as he was always known to friends and colleagues, was born on St Valentine’s Day 1926, the elder of twins. His father, John Pritchard Williams, was a successful surveyor; his mother was Dorothy Williams née Bates. Brought up in Sheen, west London, he was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge, where he became head of his house, going on to win a place to study medicine at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. He subsequently completed his clinical training at St Mary’s Hospital in London, qualifying in 1950. His first house job at St Mary’s was as a house surgeon to Sir Arthur Porritt. This was followed by further junior posts in the hospital, during which he met his future wife Patricia Freeman (‘Pat’), a St Mary’s nurse. They married in 1952, just before he commenced his National Service in the Far East as a surgeon lieutenant commander on the aircraft carrier HMS *Unicorn* and then on the frigate HMS *Alert*. He returned to surgical registrar posts in London, before being appointed to a four-year senior registrar rotation at St Mary’s in 1957. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1956 and gained his MChir in 1958. In 1960 he spent a year as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, before returning to St Mary’s as a senior registrar to Sir Arthur Porritt. In order to gain further experience in urological surgery, he applied for and was successful in gaining a resident surgical officer post in the St Peter’s Group of Hospitals in Covent Garden, where the Institute of Urology of London University was based. He subsequently became a senior lecturer and sub dean there and, in 1968, was appointed to the consultant staff of St Peter’s and at Greenwich District Hospital. With beds at St Paul’s Hospital, he developed an interest in the diagnosis and treatment of prostatic carcinoma, publishing on the use of the Franzen needle technique for aspirating cells from prostatic tumours for cytological analysis. He also espoused the use of pituitary ablation by the implantation of radioactive yttrium seeds under X-ray control as a pain relief treatment for advanced disease. Other papers followed on pelvic lymphadenectomy and urinary incontinence. As his career advanced, he became deeply involved with the British Association of Urological Surgeons, serving on its council between 1971 and 1978, when he was the honorary secretary, with sporadic *ex officio* membership until 1990. With John Blandy he published a history of the Association (*The history of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, 1945-1995* London, The British Association of Urological Surgeons, 1995). During this period, he also became a member of the court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and joined the list of honorary consultant surgeons to St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, where he was on the council of the section of urology, serving as president of the section between 1989 and 1990, when he arranged a memorable winter scientific meeting in Courcheval, France, where a lack of snow failed to limit the success of the occasion. JP’s affection for the Navy never left him and throughout his life he retained a certain nautical style. He was an accomplished yachtsman, owning a number of boats with colleagues. His juniors all recall invigorating maritime experiences when, as extra hands, they accompanied him on eventful cross channel cruises. Widely respected by his juniors as much for his geniality, kindness and interest in their future careers as for his surgical technique, he repaid their respect by inventing the Chrysalis Club at the Institute of Urology, a popular monthly meeting where generations of urological trainees from London hospitals gathered to present and discuss problematic clinical cases in a relaxed and informal manner. On his retirement from the NHS at the age of 65 he continued with his busy private practice, remaining as a consultant to the King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers, to which he had been appointed in 1977. His consulting rooms contained a spinet, which he would play between appointments. Even at a very considerable age he continued to play the piano and, after retiring to Milland in West Sussex, was often seen playing in village reviews and concerts. There were many trips to London to call in to the Garrick Club, to play real tennis at Lords or to occupy his seat in the pavilion to watch test matches. He resurrected an interest in archery and invested in a long bow, which visitors were invited to draw. After the death of his beloved wife Pat in 2015 his health slowly deteriorated and, in 2019, he transferred to a care home in Hindhead, Surrey, where his life drew quietly to a close on 16 February 2020, two days after his 94th birthday. He was survived by his daughter Clare, a banker, and his son Hugh (the actor Hugh Bonneville). Another son Nigel had died in 2017.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Joseph Colin (1931 - 2016)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381470381470
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Joseph Colin Smith (Joe) was a consultant urological surgeon in Oxford. Born on 9 February 1931 in Lancaster, he was the son of Francis Brian Smith, a master grocer with the family firm T D Smiths, and his wife Kathleen Mary née Parkinson. At any loyal toast he could always be relied upon to add a toast to “The Duke of Lancaster”. He had an older brother Ian and a younger sister Felicity. His great uncle was John W Smith, a distinguished surgeon who became professor of systemetic surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary. After early education at the Friends School Lancaster from 1940 to 1945, he attended Bootham School in York until 1949. It was at Bootham that the biology teacher Clifford Smith fostered his interest in medicine. He studied at University College and Hospital (UCH) in London graduating MB BS in 1954 after battling tuberculosis and losing 6 months study due to the disease. He did house jobs at the Miller General Hospital in Greenwich, UCH, and St Peter’s Hospital for Stone in Covent Garden and passed the fellowship of the college in 1958. On joining the staff of St Barthlomew’s Hospital he became chief assistant to two distinguished surgeons, Sir Alec Badenoch and Sir Ian Todd. In 1963 he assisted them in carrying out a prostatectomy on the then Prime Minister, Sir Harold Macmillan. It was later said that Macmillan used this event as an excuse to withdraw from politics when the news of the Profumo affair was about to break. On Sir Alec’s advice he spent a year in the USA at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1965 to 1966 where he worked for Willard Goodwin and Joe Kaufman. He returned to UCH and then moved to the Oxford hospital group as a general surgeon with an interest in urology. In 1968 he won the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) prize for the best paper in the *British Journal of Urology* on urethral resistance to micturition. As he was later to note he specialised as soon as he could and founded the Oxford department of urology now at the Churchill Hospital. Appointed consultant urological surgeon in 1974 he set up an outstanding research programme in collaboration with Alison Brading, a smooth muscle physiologist in the department of pharmacology. While there he trained and mentored hundreds of the next generation of surgeons to treat diseases of the male and female urinary tract systems and reproductive organs for the next 25 years. He retired twenty years later becoming consultant surgeon emeritus in 1995 and was awarded the OBE for services to medicine. Travelling widely for his profession he spent ten years from 1980 to 1990 visiting Oman and working to establish his specialty there. As advisor in urology to the Minister of Health he helped the Omanis to set up a kidney transplant programme. He held visiting professorships at the University of Pernambuco in Brazil, the University of Christchurch in New Zealand, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Toronto in Canada and the University of Singapore. The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) appointed him visiting professorships to New York and San Francisco. At the college he was an ex officio member of Council from 1992 to 1994. President and treasurer of the BAUS, he was also an honorary member of the American, Australasian and European Urological Associations. President of the section of urology of the RSM, he also held a number of important positions at the Medical Defence Union (MDU) and was a principal examiner in surgery for the University of Oxford. He worked with the MDU for over 30 years and was often quoted as advising doctors to “be nice to your patients. Patients rarely sue doctors who are nice to them and communicate well”. He also acted as a civilian consultant in urology to the Royal Navy. Outside medicine he enjoyed farming, catching crayfish, golf and skiing. He also enjoyed playing lawn tennis and real tennis being a member of the Merton College team which named a cup after him. During his time at the Miller General Hospital he had met an Italian nurse Mafalda Anna Cavalieri from Parma and they married in St Pancras Old Church in 1957 and honeymooned in Italy in his two seater HRG sports car that had won at Le Mans in 1939. In later times he used to say that she must have loved him very much to change her name from Anna Maria Grazia Domenica Cavalieri to Smith. They had three children, Alexandra (born 1958), Christopher Brian David (born 1960), a solicitor and businessman and Maria Gabriella (born 1962) who became an artist. At their home in Wootton for 17 years and later in Witney their hospitality was legendary. Mafalda predeceased him on 21 March 2011 and Alex died in March 2013. He died of pneumonia on 28 October 2016 aged 85, survived by Christopher and Gabriella and eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Philip James (1958 - 2022)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Neville Harrison
Publication Date 2022-07-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Phil Thomas was a consultant urological surgeon in Brighton. A Welshman of exceptional ability, he made particular contributions to his specialty interest in transgender surgery and to the development of urology in East Africa. He was born in Cardiff on 30 September 1958, into a strongly medical family; his parents, uncles, aunts and a grandfather were all doctors. His father, Lewis Philip Thomas, was a gifted surgeon who worked at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport; his mother, Anne Gwendolen Thomas née Tighe, was a leader in family planning. Philip was educated at Wells House in the Malvern Hills and then at Bryanston. In 1976, Philip joined St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. Despite many distractions, often led by Phil, he remained sufficiently focused on his studies to qualify MB BS with honours in surgery in 1981. He quickly moved on in surgery, obtaining the FRCS in 1986, working initially under Brian Peeling in Newport. He completed his urology training at Guy’s with Tony Mundy, who described Phil as ‘more than usually competent, more than usually knowledgeable and more than usually interesting and amusing’. Phil always strove to learn from the best and to be the best. He won a gold medal in the urology FRCS specialty exam. He completed his urology training on a rotation to Brighton, where we soon discovered that Phil was exceptionally well informed and could be relied upon to keep us up to date with the latest urological publications. His strengths as a teacher and communicator were appreciated by both staff and patients. Phil became involved in urology in the developing world through Urolink, the British Association of Urological Association’s (BAUS) group that works with colleagues in low-income countries, mainly, but not exclusively, in East and Southern Africa. Phil joined the Urolink committee and, in 1998, went on the first of several visits to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) at Moshi in Tanzania. KCMC was unusual in having a well-established urology department under Lester Eshleman, an American pastor and urologist who ran a urology training programme for surgeons from East and Southern Africa. The one-year urology course was oversubscribed by general surgeons keen to learn how to treat prostate problems by transurethral resection and to repair urethral strictures by urethroplasty, both common conditions. Support for KCMC by short teaching visits by Urolink urologists had been in place for some years. On Phil’s first visit we travelled overland from Nairobi to Moshi with a group of Kenyan surgeons, had two punctures on the way and arrived exhausted at KCMC at 5pm ready for a cold beer, only to be greeted by Eshleman, who immediately took us on a lengthy ward round to plan the next day’s operating lists. Phil was the lynchpin of the urology workshops, attending every subsequent biennial meeting until 2019. The workshops consisted of a few days of intense teaching, operating, planning post-operative management and, most importantly, socialising with our African colleagues, who held Phil in the highest esteem. Phil introduced many BAUS members, both consultants and trainees, to East Africa, inspiring in most a lasting love for the continent and a passionate wish to bring urological care to its people by training and supporting surgeons from the region. Phil’s urological career was wide and varied. Appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at Brighton in 1995, he took on cancer and reconstructive surgery, and then broadened into transgender surgery. A brilliant technical surgeon, with a real empathy for his patients, Phil led this field at Charing Cross Hospital and in Sussex. In 2016 *The Guardian* newspaper published a feature ‘Meet the transgender surgeons: “Demand is going through the roof”’, with Phil making a major contribution. From social media postings it is clear Phil was held in the highest regard by the transgender community. At Brighton he became a respected and influential member of the management team, making a lasting impression as a finance director with his ‘no nonsense’ approach to his medical colleagues, winning the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s working with finance – clinician of the year award in 2010. He made the most of Brighton as a coastal city. His life-long passion for sailing developed initially within Cardigan Bay, Wales and then Brighton and the South Coast. He regularly sailed competitively from Brighton Marina with his anaesthetic colleague, Duncan McDonald; another area in which Phil excelled, including winning the J/111 World Championships, J Cup and Cowes Week. He married Helen Burton in 1987 and had three children. They later separated, but Phil remained a devoted father to Georgie, Pete and Shan. He subsequently married Caryl Terlezki in 2019, continuing a Welsh connection, and, setting up home in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, continuing a love of the sea and sailing. He will be remembered as a man of exceptional talents, brilliant in many fields, a great friend to many, wonderful company, funny and generous. He left us too early, on 12 May 2022, aged 63, having been unwell for three months with covid and was sadly deprived of enjoying with Caryl a well-deserved retirement.
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First Title value, for Searching Wiggins-Davies, Walter Wiggins (1914 - 1974)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379224379224
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 24 May 1914, Walter was the first son of William Theophilus Wiggins-Davies, a manufacturing stationer in Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward School in Birmingham and at Trinity College, Cambridge, before his clinical studies at St Thomas's Hospital. He became a senior surgical registrar at St Thomas's and then first assistant in the urology department where he developed his interest and career in urology. He served in the RAMC with the rank of Major as a surgical specialist before his appointment as a consultant in urology to the Portsmouth Hospital Group. He was a senior Fellow of the Association of Surgeons and also of the Association of Urological Surgeons. He wrote articles on diseases of the prostate gland and bladder, urethroscopy, the treatment of urethral stricture, sling operations, and embryological studies about the persistent mesonephric duct. In 1941 he married Ann Gilbert but they were divorced and, in 1958, he married Cynthia Lee, who was also MRCS. They had one son who is a farmer. Walter was keen on shooting, fishing and bird-watching. His latter years were overshadowed by progressive respiratory deficiency which eventually confined him to the house and the use of oxygen. He died on 19 February 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Richmond, William David (1943 - 2018)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Peter Barnes
Publication Date 2018-06-19 2018-11-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381872381872
Occupation Urologist Urological surgeon
Details William (‘Bill’) Richmond pioneered the development of urology services at what is now Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. He was born on 1 June 1943 in Ulverston Cottage Hospital, Lancashire to David Alan Richmond, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Eira Richmond (née Osterstock) a nurse, a brother to their first child, Jennifer, who was then two years old. William was named after his maternal uncle who was killed on active service in 1942. The family lived in Bardsea on the edge of Morecambe Bay before they emigrated to New Zealand in 1946, where his father was to join a general practice as their surgeon. The post was not as advertised and they returned to England in 1947, his father then spending two years with the RAMC serving in Malaya and Japan. The family moved several times in Lancashire before his parents finally settled in Colne, where his father worked as an orthopaedic surgeon in the local group of hospitals. Unsurprisingly, given this initial peripatetic background, the children were sent as boarders to Westholme School in Arnside, where William settled in quickly even though he was only four years old. He continued his education at Cressbrook School in Kirkby Lonsdale, before moving to Sedbergh. It was here that he discovered his interest in shooting (and had several exploits with explosives), becoming a crack shot with clay pigeons. He also indulged his love of ornithology, encouraged by his father who was himself a keen ornithologist. From his mother, who would take him and Jennifer to visit rivers in the Yorkshire Dales, he inherited a lifelong love of fishing. He went from Sedbergh to Manchester University to study medicine and qualified in 1966. As a student he was popular and an enthusiastic player for the medics’ rugby team though, as a team member put it, he played for the enjoyment rather than the result. He held junior house officer posts in surgery and medicine at Salford Royal Hospital and then joined the anatomy department at Manchester for a year in preparation for a career in surgery. A senior house officer rotation at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Park Hospital, Davyhulme was followed by a registrar post at Withington and a senior registrar post at Manchester Royal Infirmary with Eric Charlton Edwards. In 1976 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Wigan, Wrightington and Leigh group of hospitals, their first urologist. He initially delivered services at clinics at Leigh Infirmary and Wrightington, before moving the Wrightington clinic to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in 1988. He and his team of local pioneers not only established urology services but delivered, over many years, some of the shortest NHS urology waiting lists in the UK. In addition to his surgical work, he served as clinical director of surgery and consultant representative on the Wigan Area Health Authority. Later he was on the steering committee which set up the Wigan and Leigh Health Services NHS Trust and was then a member of the Trust board. He retired in 1999. William married Terry (née Mills) in 1969 and they had two children, Liam and Kerry, but the marriage was short lived. He met Bernadette Piot in 1977 and they eventually married in 1994. Within a few weeks of his retirement they moved to the Vercors region of France, where both developed a love of cross-country skiing. Retirement gave William a chance to indulge his other outside interests. He had long had an interest in motor sports and had been a medic at Oulton Park Circuit, where he was a competitive mini car racer. He was also a member of Porsche Club Great Britain, the Porsche Club Bourgogne Franche-Comté and the Goodwood Road and Racing Club. William and Bernadette returned to the UK in 2011, settling in Hampshire, where he had the opportunity to rekindle his love of ornithology and fly fishing, joining the Salisbury District Angling Club. He also tried his hand at sailing in Christchurch Harbour, but the siren call of the engine was hard to resist and he gained certificates for safety boat duties. In 2013 he was invited back to Wigan to open the Richmond urology unit in the new Hanover Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, in recognition of the contribution he had made to the development of urology services. That his name was chosen 14 years after he had left is an indication of the regard in which he was held. About 12 months later he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was successfully treated with surgery. In March 2017 he developed low back pain as a result of metastatic spread, not from his prostate, but from an adenocarcinoma of the lung, despite being a lifelong non-smoker. He was swiftly diagnosed and given excellent treatment. Although it may have delayed progression to some extent and initially brought symptom relief, he inevitably deteriorated. Typical of William, he remained upbeat until the very last. He will be remembered by friends, colleagues and patients for his openness, his humour, his unique brand of political incorrectness, his ability to talk to patients in their terms (he would frequently introduce himself as ‘Mr Richmond, the dick doctor’) and, of course, for his surgical skill and clinical ability. He died on 29 March 2018, aged 74, and was survived by his wife, Bernadette, his children, Liam and Kerry, and his sister, Jen.
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First Title value, for Searching Millin, Terence John (1903 - 1980)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-02-10 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378934378934
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Terence Millin, internationally famous for the introduction of the operation of retropubic prostatectomy, was born in Helen's Bay, County Down, on 9 January 1903. He was educated at St Andrew's College and Trinity College, Dublin, gaining a Kidd Entrance Exhibition in 1921. As an undergraduate he was unusually distinguished both academically and on the sporting field. Initially he studied mathematics and became a foundation scholar in this subject before transferring to the medical school where he won numerous prizes including the much sought after Cunningham Medal in anatomy. He was Captain of Dublin University Rugby Football Club and in 1925 he was capped for Ireland in the match against Wales. He qualified in 1927. After winning the Surgical Travelling Prize and gaining both his Fellowship and Mastership, Millin moved to London where in due course he was appointed Surgeon to All Saints' Hospital, the Royal Masonic Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He rapidly built up a large and successful practice and gained an international reputation. He was an early enthusiast for endoscopic transurethral resection of the prostate, but in December 1945 he published in the *Lancet* his technique of retropubic prostatectomy, an operation which rapidly became widely accepted and led to his name becoming known to surgeons throughout the world. He was in great demand abroad to demonstrate his technique and large numbers of overseas colleagues came to London to watch him operate. Although his name is best known for his operation of prostatectomy, Millin also contributed much original work on the urological aspects of gynaecology and the treatment of bladder carcinoma. During the 1940's and 50's he worked prodigiously long hours. He received numerous international honours including the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1951, Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 1952 and later of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and corresponding membership of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in 1953. In 1975 he was elected the first honorary member of the Irish Society of Urology and in 1978 the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine presented him with honorary membership in Dublin. In the same year he was elected an honorary member of the New York Section of the American Urological Association. In 1979, the year before he died, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland inaugurated the Millin Lecture. During his years in London, Millin maintained his Irish links being Vice-President of the London-Irish Football Club and always ready to advise young Irish surgeons working in England. It was therefore no great surprise when he decided to return to Ireland, was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and became President in 1963. During his three year term of office he inaugurated a major fund raising campaign and started the modern building programme of the College. As befitted a one-time mathematical scholar he was an outstandingly clear-thinking man and had great felicity with the spoken word. He was a brilliant raconteur and in great demand as an after-dinner speaker where his stories were always in good taste and apposite to the company. He retired early from active surgery and took up farming in Doneraile, County Cork, where he became an expert on soil chemistry. Sadly his last year was spent in a great deal of pain which, with the help of his wife, Molly, he bore with great courage. He died on 3 July 1980, aged 77 years, and was survived by his wife and two daughters, Deidre and Zoe.
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First Title value, for Searching Bultitude, Michael Ian (1936 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2015-06-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373964373964
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Michael Bultitude was a much respected urologist at St Thomas' Hospital who helped set up the first public lithotripter service in the UK for renal stones and also made significant contributions to the study of urodynamics. He was born on 29 September 1936 in Withernsea, Yorkshire, the only child of Frank and Millicent Bultitude. When only a few months old his father, a serving Army officer, was posted to India and for the next several years the family lived in that country. Sadly, his father died when Michael was only seven years old and so the family returned to England and Michael attended the Royal Masonic School, where he excelled academically, winning a place at Trinity College, Cambridge, to study medicine. He was a keen oarsman, and in later years would proudly still display his oar from his Cambridge days. He proceeded to London for his clinical studies at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1965. House appointments were at Shoreham Hospital and Worthing Hospital, before he became a senior house officer on the urological unit at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. A rotating registrarship on the Wolverhampton circuit was followed by a seminal year as a resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, London, which was the acknowledged centre for postgraduate urology. After a research urology post back at St Thomas' he was appointed as a senior registrar in urology and, in 1977, consultant urologist at both Lewisham Hospital and St Thomas', where he worked with Kenneth Shuttleworth and Wyndham Lloyd-Davies as colleagues. He left Lewisham in 1981 to work exclusively at his alma mater. Michael set up a urodynamics unit developing and equipping a cystometrogram unit for the investigation of functional disorders of micturition. He pioneered the use of prostaglandins in the atonic bladder and the use of sub trigonal injections of phenol for urge incontinence, publishing a number of papers on these areas. Other areas of research interest were urinary tract infection in relation to prostatectomy and the use of capsaicin for patients with chronic renal pain. This latter subject unusually resulted in a paper where the authors were father and son (for his son Matthew was then a medical student at St Thomas' and helped his father in the research) ('Loin pain haematuria syndrome: distress resolved by pain relief.' *Pain*. 1998 May;76[1-2]:209-13). In the early 1980s St Thomas' was the first NHS hospital in the UK to install an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter for the treatment of urinary calculi and Michael was closely involved with the development of this service. In 1986 he was a co-author of a paper detailing the treatment of the first 1,000 patients by this machine ('Report on the first 1000 patients treated at St Thomas' Hospital by extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy.' *Br J Urol*. 1986 Dec;58[6]:573-7). Outside of urology his interests included sports cars and especially boating. His motor boat named *Shockwave* (after the lithotripter) was moored near Rochester and many a weekend was spent with his family either sailing it or tinkering with it. Holidays were spent in the sunshine of Lanzarote, where he owned a villa for some 20 years. Happily married to Margaret, a former radiographer, they had four children, three sons (the eldest Matthew, who also became a consultant urologist, Sam and Richard) and a daughter (Jessica). Retiring from St Thomas' in 1999 because of ill health, he moved from the London suburb of Dulwich to the sea air of Worthing, where he enjoyed a relaxed life despite battling with various illnesses which he bore with stoicism and fortitude. He died on 19 February 2011, aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Leonard Norman (1929 - 2014)

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by Robert J Ryall
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2014-11-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leonard Norman Allen ('Len') was a urological surgeon at Edgware General Hospital, Middlesex. He was born in the village of Brede, Sussex, on 30 April 1929, the youngest son of Norman Williams Allen and Mildred Kathleen Allen née Hoad. His father, a much-respected member of the local community, was a grocer and the village sub-postmaster for half a century. Len's mother, very protective of her last born, postponed her son's entry to the local primary school until his sixth year due to the severe visual impairment from which he had suffered since birth. His condition, severe myopia, was not finally diagnosed until he was nine years old. It is said that, on receiving his first pair of spectacles, he 'whooped with joy' on being able to see the world around him properly for the first time. Despite his delayed start, he won an entrance scholarship to Rye Grammar School, but his progress was again encumbered; with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he was, like many other children, evacuated, in his case to a kind, welcoming family on a farm near the comparative safety of Bedford. It was four years before he was able to return to Rye Grammar School, from which he again achieved scholastic success, and was awarded a state scholarship in his final term. This enabled him to enrol - after conscription for two years of National Service in the RAF - at University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1954. Len Allen's pre-registration posts were at Leicester General and Leicester Royal hospitals, where he first met a young newly-qualified Scottish doctor, Elizabeth Taylor. They married in 1957. Len chose to embark on a surgical career. He obtained his FRCS in 1959 and was shortly afterwards appointed as a junior registrar at his alma mater, University College Hospital, and then as a senior surgical registrar to Robin Sturtevant Pilcher and Doreen Nightingale, and, after that, upon the death of the former, to Charles Clarke. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Edgware General Hospital, where he spent the rest of his professional life. He brought with him a particular vision, influenced by the values of Beveridge and the optimism of the immediate post-war years, which saw the development of the welfare state and the NHS. He believed in the importance of working together, in a cross-fertilisation of all talents, that one person's amassing of awards, prizes or accumulation of research papers, pursued as a measure of merit, could be bettered by joint endeavour and shared recognition. Len, as a consequence, was elected chairman of the consultant surgical group by his peers. In his professional life, Len was an able, trustworthy and judicious surgeon to his patients; for his colleagues, he was a faithful friend, dependable in counsel and constant in support. In his personal life, Len was a stalwart, strong, good-humoured and ever-loving husband, a thoughtful and caring father, and the fondest of grandfathers. One of his children became a doctor, two became veterinary surgeons and another is a qualified nutritionist, while three of his eight grandchildren are studying medicine: there can be no greater compliment paid to a doctor from his family. In his final illness, which was sudden and unanticipated, he showed staunch courage, boundless fortitude and tenacious good cheer, borne up throughout by his steady faith, the love of his wife and family, and the constancy of his friends and colleagues. Leonard Norman Allen died on 6 February 2014, aged 84. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth Allen, two sons, Peter and Michael, two daughters, Jennifer and Penelope, and eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Corbin, John Ogilvie (1910 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born at Adelaide, Australia on 13 February 1910, son of John Corbin, surgeon, and Margaret Ogilvie, he was educated at Queen's School, Adelaide and Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, after which he attended St Mark's College, University of Adelaide and graduated in medicine in 1933. While an undergraduate he obtained a blue for rifle shooting. He held house appointments in Adelaide and London, becoming a surgical registrar to the Birmingham General Hospital. In 1939 he was admitted a Fellow and during the early part of the second world war was employed in the Emergency Medical Service in London. In 1942 he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist, serving until 1945 in the Middle East and Italy with the Eighth Army, acting as a forward surgeon at Anzio and Salerno. After the war for two years he was a consultant surgeon at Basingstoke but, becoming restless, he left for Nairobi in Kenya in 1952 to start a consultant surgical practice in urology. In 1960 he moved again, going back to his home town of Adelaide. He then left to fill a succession of contracts with the Governments of the Seychelles Islands 1962-1965 and of Lesotho 1966-1968; in 1970 he went to Sarawak with his family. Having been a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital in London, he had a special interest in urology but remained an able general surgeon. His relaxations included shooting, tennis and sailing. He died on 31 December 1971 in the Sarawak General Hospital aged 61, survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Semple, John Edward (1903 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Tasker, John Holmes (1917 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Sewell, Ivor Alwyne (1930 - 1992)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Ivor Alwyne Sewell studied medicine at King's College Hospital, qualifying MB BS in 1955. A lecturer in surgery at Westminster Hospital Medical School at the start of his career, he then became senior registrar in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was awarded a PhD for research into the microcirculation in 1962. Later he developed interests in urology and vascular surgery and was appointed consultant surgeon at Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1971. He had a life long interest in the Forces. He attended Sandhurst and was a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He was surgeon major to the 52nd Lowland Volunteers until 1971. When he retired from the Territorial Army he was lieutenant general at 207 Manchester General Hospital and he continued to lecture at the combined services' training courses. As a founder member of the Military Surgical Society he designed a badge which would meet all the requirements of the College of Arms. He also helped develop ideas for the radical change in the structure of hospitals for the British Army of the Rhine and was subsequently awarded the Territorial Decoration. His many interests included management - he became a member of the British Institute of Management; railway engineering - supporting Dinting Railway Museum; oil painting and technical drawing. He produced many innovative teaching aids with these skills. He died on 30 July 1992 after a second myocardial infarction, survived by his wife, Jean, and two adopted children, Mark and Jackie. His epitaph reads 'Scholar, scientist, soldier, surgeon' - he was all of these.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandrey, John Gordon (1903 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Perry, Kenneth Cyril (1929 - 1995)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Kenneth Perry was born in London on 25 August 1929. His father, John, was a chef and his mother, Cecilia Gertrude, née Berry, a nurse. From Surrey County School he went to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he qualified MB BS, and afterwards held appointments at Princess Beatrice Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital. After National Service in the RAMC in British Guiana he was surgical registrar at Southend followed by senior urological registrar at the Royal Free Hospital. He was the first urological surgeon at the Royal East Sussex Hospital in Hastings. In 1981 he transferred to the new District General Hospital in Eastbourne. He was much involved in the medical organisation and was Chairman of surgery and Chairman of the South East Thames Regional subcommittee in urology. He was known for his caring qualities and was consulted on various problems, which he tackled with great charm and wisdom. In 1989 he had to retire due to motor neurone disease, which ran a protracted course until he died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis. His hobbies were squash, tennis, music and painting. In January 1959 he married Sybil Adelaide Skinner, a state registered nurse who trained at Charing Cross Hospital and who looked after him sedulously in his last illness. They had two daughters - Ann, a linguist and Kate, a chartered accountant - and a son, Ian, a scientist. He died on 11 April 1995, survived by his wife and children, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hollands, Frank Gordon (1912 - 1985)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Frank Gordon Hollands was born in Bakewell, Derbyshire on 5 October 1912, and received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he graduated in 1936. He served in the RNVR during the war and was then appointed surgical registrar to the United Birmingham Hospitals. He took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1947 and the same year was awarded the Jacksonian Prize. He held a Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1950 for work on bladder cancer. He moved to Derby in 1947 and was appointed consultant surgeon with a major interest in urology to the Derby Hospital Group. He was also a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the International Society of Urology. In 1973 he was awarded the FRCS ad eundum. Gordon Hollands was a keen sportsman and an outstanding ornithologist and cine-photographer. He was a founder member of both the hospital cricket team and the Derby Ornithological Society. He won national acclaim for his excellent films on birds and nature subjects, including a BBC prize film on golden eagles, and he lectured extensively to societies all over the country. He also used his photographic skills in forming a tape-slide library for postgraduate teaching in the Trent Region and for several years before his retirement he was responsible for this service which was widely used in postgraduate teaching. He died on 29 January 1985, and was survived by his wife Pat and five children, one of whom is a GP in Dorset, and another a veterinary surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Higgins, Andrew Fraser (1943 - 2000)

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First Title value, for Searching Price Thomas, John Martyn (1935 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation Anatomist Breast Surgeon General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Martyn was born in London on 6 August 1935. His father, Sir Clement Price Thomas, was surgeon to King George VI, President of the BMA, the Association of Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of the College. His mother was Dorrie Ricks. He was educated at Leighton Park and then went into the RAF medical branch to do his National Service, before going on to St Thomas's. There he won the Grainger prize in anatomy and was greatly influenced by Sharpey-Schafer and Arthur Buller. He was house surgeon to Robert Nevin and house physician to Bill Medd and Kingston. After a period as an anatomy demonstrator, he went to Hammersmith as house surgeon to Richard Franklin and Selwyn Taylor, before going on to Oxford to complete his surgical training. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport in 1975, where he developed a special interest in urology and breast cancer. In 1995 he moved to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, to teach anatomy and be a consultant to their breast unit. He was a talented painter and sculptor, and a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, as well as a keen sailor and golfer. In 1962 he married Deirdre Irene McMaster. They had three daughters, Emma, Kate and Clem, who inherited his artistic talents. He died on 6 June 2000 from a sarcoma of the oesophagus.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Richard Emmott (1916 - 2018)

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by Rob Blacklock
Publication Date 2018-06-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon General surgeon
Details Richard E Shaw was one of the first full-time urologists in the UK and one of the first to set up a urological department in a district general hospital, Walsgrave General Hospital, Coventry. He was born in Ravensthorpe, Yorkshire, the third of four siblings. His father, Edward Shaw, was a corn miller and came from a family of millers. His mother, Eliza Jane Shaw née Hirst, was the daughter of a builder. He was educated at Mirfield Grammar School and had a very happy time there. He decided to study medicine after reading *The science of life* (London, Waverley Book Company, 1929), a popular account of biology, by H G Wells, Julian Huxley and G P Wells, and after attending an open day at the newly-rebuilt Dewsbury and District Infirmary. A physics teacher kindly gave up his own time to teach biology, which was not on the curriculum, to the boys who needed it to get into medical school. Richard entered Leeds University Medical School in 1934, travelling daily to Leeds by bus. He graduated with honours in 1940. After surgical appointments on the professorial unit at Leeds General Infirmary and as a resident surgical officer at the Dewsbury and District Infirmary, he was called up for military service in 1942, joining the RAMC. He initially served as a medical officer to an infantry unit in Norfolk, where he met his future wife, Jean Duncan Hart. He then went off to North Africa as a surgical specialist to military hospitals in Algeria and later to Europe. He married Jean on 17 August 1945 at North Walsham, Norfolk. Soon after he was dispatched to Kenya for two years, to Nairobi and Mombasa. A careful reading of the Army regulations persuaded him that he was entitled to have his wife join him there. He applied and, much to the amazement of fellow officers, including the colonel of the regiment, permission was granted. Jean duly joined him and a second honeymoon was spent on the coast at Shanzu and in western Uganda. Richard found his time in the RAMC both exciting and interesting, and completed his service in early 1947. After returning to civilian life, he was appointed as a chief assistant in surgery to the West Middlesex Hospital. He had an excellent mentor in John Scofield. In 1951, he joined the surgical staff of the Coventry hospitals as a general surgeon. At the time, urological procedures were carried out by general surgeons ‘with an interest in urology’. Richard’s main interest however was in urological surgery. He became an early member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and increasingly specialised in urology. In 1968 a new hospital, Walsgrave General Hospital, opened in Coventry, and, due to Richard’s work, a dedicated urological department was established as part of the new hospital with a specialised ward and nursing staff. The department was awarded national recognition and granted a senior registrar for higher urological training. Richard was a member of the Société Internationale d’Urologie, and served as a member of the council of BAUS and the council of the urological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, to which he was awarded life membership on his retirement. At various times, he was chairman of the Coventry British Medical Association, a member of the hospital management committee and chairman of the Midland Urological Club. Despite bringing up three children, Jean supported Richard’s work by becoming involved with and chairing the Walsgrave Hospital Volunteers until Richard retired. Throughout his career, Richard maintained an interest in clinical research and teaching. He had a love of learning and was always curious to acquire new skills and knowledge, including taking painting classes and learning Russian before a urology congress in Russia. In retirement, he joined a computer course and used his computer until his eyesight failed. He published many papers, from his first in the *British Journal of Surgery* in 1949 to his last in the *British Journal of Urology* in 1978, initially on general surgery, but latterly on urology topics. He encouraged his junior staff to do the same. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of urology, but wore his learning lightly. He was an excellent teacher and was ahead of his time in organising weekly Wednesday lunchtime urology department teaching meetings – attended not just by the urology team, but also radiologists, renal physicians and anybody else who was interested. He encouraged his junior doctors to attend regional, national and international urology meetings and conferences. Decades before it became fashionable, he introduced the idea of auditing the performance of the urology department and used the results to improve the urology service. He was an immaculate surgeon and even during the most difficult operations hardly spilt any blood. In those pre-sub specialisation days, he would operate on any part of the urological tract, from top to bottom, male or female, adult or child. It was no coincidence that he was the first to be consulted for urological illness by fellow medical colleagues and their families. He was revered by his patients and was always a gentleman. His advice was sought on matters medical and non-medical. In the 1970s Richard and his urological colleague provided all the urology expertise for the whole of Coventry and Warwickshire; now there are six urologists in Coventry, three in Warwick and two in Nuneaton. Away from his professional life, he had an extremely happy life with Jean and their three children (Andrew, Deborah and Lucy). The family spent many happy times in their cottage in Herefordshire. Richard loved outdoor pursuits, including walking, sailing his dinghy and gardening. He was a very amusing and entertaining person to be with, and had a fund of stories. He was an accomplished pianist until his eyesight deteriorated and, from school productions of Gilbert and Sullivan, he developed a lifelong love of classical music and opera. He had a keen sense of humour and an eye for the absurd. In his later years, he and Jean discovered golf and enjoyed playing wherever they happened to be. As their years advanced, they moved to Cumbria to be near their elder daughter and her family. Jean predeceased Richard by four years, but in 2016 he celebrated his 100th birthday with all his children, seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He gave a very moving speech recounting his happy and fulfilling life. He died on 24 April 2018. He was 101.
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First Title value, for Searching Power, Stephen May (1902 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Parry, Eric Leonard (1933 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born 17 August, 1933 the only son of Eric North Parry, he was educated at Parramatta High School, New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He graduated MB, BS from the University of Sydney with second class honours in 1956 and was for two years a resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He served a further two years as resident medical officer at the Repatriation General Hospital at Concord, NSW, and then travelled to England, passing the final Fellowship examination in 1960. After this he held a surgical registrar appointment at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Returning to Australia in 1962 he was made FRACS (June 1962) and was appointed as a surgical registrar at the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord and in 1965 was appointed as staff specialist (urology) there. From 1965 he was clinical lecturer in urology (University of Sydney) at Concord Hospital. He held appointments as honorary clinical assistant in the department of urology and of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and as honorary assistant urologist at the Ryde District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, NSW, and the Rachel Forster Hospital, Sydney. He was an associate member of the Urological Society of Australasia. His relaxation was fishing, especially trout fishing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. He married on 26 January 1959, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hanton Mason, by whom he had two sons. He was a man of tremendous energy and completely devoted to his work and his patients, and his sudden and untimely death on 5 May 1968 caused great sorrow among his colleagues and also among the large numbers of ex- service patients whose urological management he had conducted with much industry and success.
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First Title value, for Searching Attwater, Harry Lawrence (1885 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1885 son of Thomas Henry Attwater, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and won an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. His father had been a scholar of Pembroke. He qualified from Guy's, where he became ophthalmic house surgeon, and was a resident at Westminster Hospital and registrar at All Saints Hospital. After active service in France as an RAMC Captain during the 1914-18 war, he became urological surgeon to All Saints Hospital and to Margaret Street Hospital for Chest Diseases. When he began work at All Saints it was in a dingy old house in the Vauxhall Bridge Road but he achieved its development into the Westminster Hospital (All Saints) Urological Centre. With his delicate touch and taste for mechanical instruments he was a pioneer of cystoscopy. Attwater was an active and useful member of many societies. He was treasurer for many years of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the *British Journal of Urology*, served on the executive council of the British Health Resorts Association, and was elected President of the Section of Urology in the Royal Society of Medicine and the Hunterian Society. Between the wars he lived at Hampstead but later removed to Richmond. He was interested in psychology, and found his recreation in rifle-shooting and carpentry. Attwater married twice: first in 1915 Nora Collingdon Hawkins, daughter of William Hawkins MRCS, of Broadwey, Dorset; she died in 1929. Secondly, in 1933, Doris Emily Winter Callaway. He died on 29 May 1961 aged 76.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Walter McCausland (1912 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in Dublin on 15 October 1912, son of a well-known naval architect, he was educated at St Peter's School, York, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was senior surgical registrar at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, supernumerary surgical registrar and house surgeon at St Mary's, and senior surgical registrar at the Royal Free. During the second world war he served in the Royal Navy and was in HMS *Cossack* when she was sunk. He was also PMO at hospitals in Alexandria and Cairo, and retired with the rank of Surgeon-Commander. Scott went to Doncaster in 1953 as consultant to the Royal Infirmary and the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough. He was secretary of the group medical committee and was widely respected. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the International Society of Urology. "Scottie" as he was known to his friends had a keen sense of humour and quiet charm. He served many good causes at Doncaster and was an active member of the Parish Church. He was an excellent horseman and acting field-master of Badsworth Hunt. Scott lived at 94 Thorne Road, Doncaster, but died suddenly on 3 May 1964 aged 51 while on a cruise at sea after a severe illness. During the cruise he had successfully performed an emergency abdominal operation on a fellow passenger; he was buried at sea. He married in 1934 Aileen Despard Kilpatrick, who survived him with their two daughters, one of whom was in medical practice. Publications: Giant haemangioma of rectum, with N E Brand. *Brit J Surg* 1957, 45, 294.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffiths, Iorwerth Havard (1909 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Iorwerth Havard Griffiths, always affectionately known as 'Griff', was born at Barry in Glamorgan on 12 January 1909. His father Roland was a master baker and caterer and his mother Celia, née Havard, a housewife. His older brother, G J Griffiths FRCS (1901-1987) was consultant surgeon at Bedford. He was educated at Barry County School and went to medical school in Cardiff and also to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. During his undergraduate years he was particularly impressed by the Professor of Anatomy, Professor West, at the Cardiff Medical School. When the war came he was called up into the RAMC in September 1939 as a surgical specialist with the rank of major, and went on to serve in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and Tobruk. After the war he became attached to the urological department at the Middlesex Hospital with Eric Riches, later becoming a consultant, and also achieving consultant status at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, and the spinal injuries centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He became treasurer of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and served in this capacity from 1969 to 1972. His many publications were exclusively on urological subjects, reflecting his career in the specialty and his special experience with management of urinary tract problems in paraplegics. As a young man he played rugby for Cardiff University between 1930 and 1932, and later in life his interest in music included making violins for his grandchildren; he also enjoyed playing golf. He married a teacher, Dorothy Joan Thomas, on 9 September 1939 and they had two children: a son, who became an electronic engineer, and a daughter who qualified at the Middlesex Hospital and subsequently took up general practice in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire. He died in December 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Neligan, George Ernest (1885 - 1956)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1885, he was educated at Epsom College, Exeter College, Oxford and the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1911 and was appointed house surgeon to Percy Furnivall and Frank Kidd, which probably stimulated his special interest in urology. After this he became house physician, resident accoucheur and surgical registrar. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he joined the RAMC and served throughout until 1919, finishing as a Major and surgical specialist. When he returned to London after the war, he became assistant to a surgical unit, and in 1921 was elected to the honorary staff as assistant surgeon to Russell Howard. The partnership lasted until 1939 when Neligan became full surgeon; during this period the firm of Russell Howard and Neligan was a household word at the London. During the whole of the war of 1939-45 he lived in the London Hospital, initially as medical superintendent and surgeon in charge, and during this period laid the foundations for a fully fledged department of urology in the hospital, although he left it to his successors to make a final decision. He was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1941-42, and was recognised as one of the leaders of the move towards specialised urology in London. An unselfish, generous man with a merry wit and a good raconteur, he wielded enormous influence for good in his own hospital. An eminent Freemason, he was a Senior Grand Deacon, and in his leisure he enjoyed golf and the turf. He married Dorothy Honar who survived him without issue, and when he retired they lived in Walmer. He died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone on 24 February 1956. Publication: War Injuries of the Genito-Urinary Tract. *Brit med J* 1939, 2, 291.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Arthur Wilfred (1892 - 1973)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

First Title value, for Searching Basu, Pradip Kumar (1942 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by I M Hutton
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Pradip Basu was a urological and general surgeon in Lincoln. He was born on 4 January 1942 into a medical family in Calcutta, India, the sixth child of Bibhuti Bhusan and Durga Rani Basu née Sinha. His grandfather and father qualified in Calcutta; his father became chief medical officer to the east zone of India, and at one time worked for Eveready Batteries. Two of Pradip's sisters went on to become gynaecologists in Hull and Sheffield. In all 10 members of the family have been employed in the National Health Service. Pradip studied medicine in Calcutta, qualified in 1965 and then moved to the UK. His potential as a surgeon soon became apparent. He secured successive posts in Hull to registrar level, and then, in 1975, he was appointed as a registrar in general and paediatric surgery and urology in Rhyl, Wales. Appointments in Liverpool followed, as a senior registrar and honorary lecturer at Broadgreen, Whiston and Walton hospitals, where his expertise was further extended in vascular and endocrine surgery and urology. This period saw Pradip develop his research interests. These covered a wide range of topics, including those connected with renal transplantation. Studies were undertaken on bowel motility after ureteric implantation, the incidence of steroid-induced cataract, comparison of in-situ and reversed vein saphenofemoral bypass and myoelectrical changes in colonic disorders. He made many presentations to learned societies, including the British Transplantation Society, the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Association of Surgeons of India and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He wrote articles for the *British Medical Journal*, *Transplantation Proceedings*, the *European Journal of Cancer* and *Gut*. During this time, Pradip carried out 51 cadaveric renal transplants. His inevitable consultant surgical appointment was to the United Lincolnshire Hospitals in 1988, to which post he brought extensive experience. He immediately recognised the need for a specialist urological service, and set about constructing this with characteristic energy. Corridor meetings were always about 'equipment', and under his influence the department blossomed, replacing the previous mixture of general surgery to incorporate urology. This change was not at first welcomed by some colleagues, but Pradip always prevailed when difficulties were encountered. He was appointed as a PLAB examiner in 2000. He examined final year medical students at Nottingham and Leicester universities. For such a busy man, Pradip found as much time as possible for his family, to whom he was devoted. He had met Santa Biswas, his future wife, in Calcutta. They belonged to the same rifle shooting club. Santa went on to become the All-India 0.22 rifle shooting champion in 1965. During selection for the National Championships, Pradip had publically upbraided Santa for recommending certain pills to a friend for flu-like symptoms before a shoot, without medical qualification. This incident certainly brought him to her attention. In 1968 they married for love; arranged marriages were then the norm. Their two sons, Babu and Bobby, were very close to him, and he was immensely proud when Babu obtained an MBA, and Bobby qualified in medicine. Bobby worked in Rotherham, and frequently found himself in a urology clinic without senior support. Pradip made sure he was available for telephone consultations; Rotherham Hospital had an unpaid consultant! Pradip's outside interests were extensive. He and Santa continued with competition shooting: she became Lincoln women's champion, and he was always in the 'A' team, taking part in the National Shooting Championships at Bisley. His funeral was attended by the entire shooting team, and the coach. He loved cricket, and frequently got up in the early hours to watch test match cricket in other countries. He opened the bowling and batting for teams, including school, university, medical college and various hospitals. He was, in addition, an excellent character actor, taking part in many productions as a key member of a local theatre group. Pradip Basu was a gifted man, extremely dedicated to the hospitals in Lincoln and to those under his care. He was an outstanding colleague. His expertise was apparent from the beginning and his output was prodigious, in the days when this was permitted by management and nursing staff. He died on 4 November 2011, aged 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Dahabreh, Suleiman Saleem (1933 - 2019)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by The Dahabreh family
Publication Date 2021-01-07 2022-01-18
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Occupation Urological surgeon General surgeon
Details Suleiman Saleem Dahabreh was a key figure in progressing medical and surgical training in Jordan and was the founder and first president of the Jordanian Association of Urological Surgeons. He was born in Shatana, a farming village in the north of Jordan, in 1933. His father, Saleem Issa, died when he was only 40 days old, and he was raised by his mother, Seteh Mousa, along with his two brothers and two sisters. In the absence of secondary schools in his village, he left his home after elementary school to move to study in Amman, the capital of Jordan, and lived with his siblings who had moved to the city before him. He then went to Cairo as a teenager to complete his final years of secondary education, after which he enrolled to study medicine at Ain Shams University, Cairo. As a Jordanian student in Egypt, he was witness to the political and cultural events that took place there at the 1950s. It was a unique time of heightened political engagement in the Middle East. Suleiman became engaged in politics as a writer and a poet. Following the attack on the Suez Canal in 1956, one of the poems he wrote about the battle of Port Said became very popular and was published in several newspapers and recited over the radio daily, such that it became a form of national anthem. It was sung by three singers at the time, including the famous Fayda Kamel. The poem earned him the prestigious Supreme Council of Literature and Arts medal presented by the intellectual, Taha Hussein. His poems earned him the title of ‘our national poet’ by his friends and colleagues. Upon his return to Jordan in 1958, he dedicated his time to the public sector and took a job at the Ministry of Health, where he was appointed to hospitals in cities across Jordan. These included Al-Karak, Bethlehem and Jerusalem (then under Jordanian jurisdiction), Al-Salt, and Amman. He spoke fondly of his time in these cities, where he made good friends. Working alongside British-trained surgeons in Jordan fostered a strong interest in furthering his surgical training in the United Kingdom, and he obtained two scholarships from the Ministry of Health to do so: the first in 1967 to attend Guy’s Hospital in London, where he received his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the second to complete his specialisation in urology at St Margaret’s Hospital in Portsmouth in 1974. He was very fond of his time in England, and London grew to become one of his most beloved cities, which he frequented often in his life. Suleiman played a pivotal and pioneering role in developing the medical sector in Jordan. He was involved in two notable projects: the establishment of the Jordan University Hospital (previously known at the Grand Amman Hospital), and the establishment of the faculty of medicine at the University of Jordan. The idea of establishing these institutions was unimaginable at the time, but they were driven by the ambition of like-minded colleagues and pioneers to train knowledgeable doctors that would continue to help their communities. He was also directly involved with the establishment of the Jordan Medical Council as the main governing body for medical education, training and accreditation. Following his service with the Ministry of Health, he was appointed as an associate professor of general surgery and urology at the Jordan University Hospital, and subsequently moved into private practice in Amman in the 1980s. Throughout his career, which spanned 60 years, he received many awards for his services to his profession and country, including the Jordanian Order of Independence medal. Until his final days, he was greeting patients at his clinic with an energetic smile. Suleiman was a loving husband to his wife Fadia Tadros, and a devoted father to four; Lana (an ophthalmologist), Ziad (an orthopaedic surgeon), Lara (an architect) and Rami (a mechanical engineer). Suleiman was happiest when he was around his family and friends, and spending time with his three grandchildren. He also loved gardening, and in his later years spent a lot of his time outdoors, tending to his plants. He passed away peacefully on 5 January 2019 at the age of 86, leaving behind him numerous grateful patients, adoring students and countless loving friends and colleagues.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, John Phillimore (1917 - 2015)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Roger Fenely
Publication Date 2015-12-10 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381200381200
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Mitchell (or 'J P M' as he was invariably known to colleagues) was appointed as the first consultant urologist in Bristol in 1952 and from that time he worked tirelessly to transform urology into the specialty that it became in his lifetime, with well-trained and equipped staff. John was born in Redruth, Cornwall, on 8 June 1919 and always remained fiercely proud of his Cornish roots. His childhood was a time of freedom and adventure, spent mainly at the seaside, where he discovered the thrill of diving through the waves, which formed the foundation for his lifelong pleasure of swimming. The family moved to London when his father, Edward John Mitchell, a tax inspector, was placed in charge of Colonial and Dominion Income Tax, and then to Cheltenham. His mother, Elsie Matilda Mitchell née Phillimore, was an actuarial clerk. John was awarded a scholarship at Cheltenham College and then progressed to train at the Middlesex Hospital, winning the Asher prize for anatomy and gaining a scholarship. On qualifying in 1942, he was appointed as a house surgeon to Lord Alfred Webb-Johnson and Sir Eric Riches, eminent general surgeons with large urological practices. Urology was not a specialty and in his biographical notes John described the primitive state of urology as the Cinderella of surgery. The urological ward could be located by the smell. Prostate surgery was hazardous, all the patients developed infections and spent weeks recovering. Patients with spinal cord injuries died from sepsis. This experience would have made a very deep impression on John, acting as a catalyst for his remarkably inventive mind. John was always seeking new scientific developments to improve patient care and the prospect of less invasive techniques using endoscopic techniques rather than the open surgery would have sparked his imagination. After that initial baptism of fire, John entered the Army, joining the RAMC 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade to serve in North Africa, Italy, France, Greece, Palestine and Germany; he was mentioned in despatches for outstanding work in the field. After the war John was posted to Iserlohn in Germany, where he met Barbara Helen Browne (also known as Jill). They married in 1949 and shared 60 years together until her death in July 2009. They had two daughters, one qualified and practised as a general practitioner in Bristol, and the other trained as a nurse and specialised in IVF work. On his return from the Army, John moved to Manchester, where he and Jill lived in a flat below the great Sir John Barbirolli, conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. Sir John and his wife taught music there to students, but John never allowed that to disturb him. Starting again as a house surgeon his career steadily advanced and he became a senior registrar at Salford Royal Hospital under Denis Poole-Wilson and then under Wilfred Adams in Bristol, both general surgeons with a major interest in urology who were pioneering new endoscopic procedures. Poole-Wilson was using the cold-punch, whilst Wilfred Adams had visited Joseph F McCarthy to learn how to use the resectoscope. John's appointment as a consultant urologist in Bristol in 1952 opened the opportunity for him to exercise his natural flair for innovation combined with fastidious attention to detail. Systematically he modified and, when necessary, designed new equipment for urological surgery; examples included leg stirrups for the operating table to avoid the acute flexion of the hips and pelvis used to expose the perineum in the classical lithotomy position and the rotator cuff on the McCarthy resectoscope, which maintained continuous irrigation through the resectoscope sheath without the need to rotate the sheath itself. He emphasised the need for meticulous cleaning and sterilisation of endoscopic equipment, designing equipment to achieve this. With his colleagues Ashton Miller, Norman Slade, Bill Gillespie and Keith Linton, he promoted closed catheter drainage of the bladder to reduce the risk of urinary infections, which had been considered an inevitable feature of prostatic surgery. Such was his concern about the use of surgical diathermy in urology, he wrote a handbook on the subject with Geoffrey Lumb, one of his senior registrars (*A handbook of surgical diathermy* Bristol, Wright, 1966). The introduction of fibreoptic telescopes in the early 1970s designed by Harold Hopkins at Reading University revolutionised endoscopy and, for the first time, enabled trainees to watch transurethral surgery being performed through a side-arm. John was at the centre of this revolutionary period in endoscopic urology and the advantages of minimally invasive surgery rapidly spread to other branches of medical practice, heralding the birth of keyhole surgery. John was not only an outstanding innovator, but an influential teacher and facilitator too. His contributions to teaching through lectures, publications in international journals and books were prodigious. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he became a member of the Court of Examiners and delivered a lecture on the subject of haemostasis in transurethral surgery both for the Jacksonian prize and medal in 1971 and, two years later, for his Hunterian lecture. In 1974 Bristol University appointed him as their first professor of urology and then followed the presidency of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine, the award of the St Peter's medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, before he became president of that Association and finally president of the International Society of Endoscopic Surgery. John's contributions to urology and to surgery nationally and internationally were legion. John's final honour of CBE in 1982 reflected his life's achievement in establishing urology as a surgical specialty. At the time of his death, there were well over 900 urologists in the UK. John was not just a technician but a fine clinician, kind and considerate to patients, students, staff and colleagues, giving guidance and generous support to their personal endeavours. Widely read, he had an insatiable appetite for learning with an encyclopaedic knowledge on a wide range of topics, which made him an entertaining companion able to converse on plants, stamps, maps and music. Retirement enabled him to explore his wide range of interests. He became president both of the local National Trust group and the Bristol Medico-Legal Society, a founder chairman of Bristol University Botanical Gardens and a member of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS). He was a keen and skilled gardener, and an enthusiastic plant collector, always insistent that he possessed two specimens of each plant (in case one died). Every new purchase would be documented and labelled. His garden was regularly opened as part of the National Gardens Scheme. Links with Cornwall were retained by purchasing three tiny cottages in Treligga near Delabole on the north Cornish coast, where he and his family enjoyed sailing and surfing. Family life was influenced by his love of music, which included playing the piano and leading the family in song. The careers of his five grandchildren reflected John's wide range of interests by including a medical practitioner, a language teacher, an actor musician, a research director and a recruitment consultant for sport. His later years became handicapped by loss of hearing and sight, but his impish sense of humour accompanied by a quiet chuckle of laughter were never impaired. He died on 16 October 2015 at the age of 96. In his biographical notes John wrote: 'Professional life is a treadmill which gathers momentum - nothing one can do will slow it down.'
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First Title value, for Searching McBrien, Michael Patrick (1935 - 2021)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Rowan McBrien
Publication Date 2022-01-11
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Occupation General surgeon Breast surgeon Urological surgeon
Details Michael McBrien was a general surgeon with an interest in urology at the West Suffolk and Newmarket hospitals. He was born on 4 July 1935 in Maidstone, Kent to Leo Patrick McBrien, a general practitioner, and Elizabeth Rosemary McBrien née Phillips, the daughter of a farmer, and had three sisters. Michael started as an exhibition scholar at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire in 1948, where he would go on to become head boy and captain of rugby, as well as a notable gymnast and athlete. On leaving Stonyhurst, Michael started an agriculture course at Wye College in Kent, but then decided to study medicine. This would require an A level in physics, which he passed with a distinction in six months, allowing him to go to St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London. As well as studying he played lots of rugby during this period, for (at different times) St Thomas’, United Hospitals, Rosslyn Park, London Irish, Kent and the Stonyhurst Wanderers. He also enjoyed athletics and cricket, as well as acting in various hospital variety shows. He maintained a strong affection for St Thomas’ throughout his career. He qualified in 1960 and did three six-month house jobs at St Thomas’, involving 132-hour weeks. Following the encouragement of his future wife Tessa Freeland, whom he met around this time, he decided to become a surgeon rather than join his father’s general practice in Kent. A year’s anatomy prosection followed – his prosected anterior triangle of the neck was copied in *Gray’s anatomy*. Whilst studying for the FRCS exams he took on general practice locum posts in London, Canterbury and Norwich. Michael moved on to registrar training in Kingston (where he performed an appendicectomy in a record 12 minutes), Chertsey, Southampton and Portsmouth. Back at St Thomas’, he learnt about urology, including the transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). Michael passed both parts of the FRCS in 1967. Michael and Tessa were married in 1964 and had three children: Emma, James and Rowan. The family moved to Suffolk when Michael took a consultant in general surgery job at the new West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. By coincidence, the surgeon Woodward Mudd lived in the McBrien family home 160 years previously, being apprenticed to Benjamin Lane Clayton who owned the house at that time. Notable professional influences for Michael included working with Ronald Furlong, Dickie Battle, John Skrimshire, Bob Nevin, Hugh Lockhart-Mummery, John Kinmonth and T Mimpriss. In the 1970s Michael published academic papers in the *Lancet*, the *British Medical Journal*, the *British Journal of Surgery* and the *British Journal of Urology*, including ‘The technique of peritoneoscopy’ *Br J Surg* 1971 Jun;58(6):433-6, ‘Leiomyosarcoma of the duodenum’ *Br J Surg* 1971 Sep;58(9):685-9, ‘Lymphography of the testis and its adnexa in the normal and in idiopathic hydrocele’ *Arch Surg* 1972 Jun;104(6):820-5 and ‘Transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis presenting with peripheral neuropathy’ *Br J Urol* 1977 Jun;49(3):202. During the early 1970s a consultant was a generalist who covered all branches of surgery, including urology, which Michael was appointed to introduce. He ran a busy NHS practice in Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket, with outpatient clinics in Thetford and Sudbury as well as a private practice clinic from home. In one particularly noteworthy incident Michael carried out emergency operations on two teenage girls who were severely injured in an attack using a ceremonial sword and left for dead on a country road. Both survived thanks to his cool-headed professional treatment through the night, and he was commended by the judge in the subsequent criminal proceedings. He introduced innovative procedures during his time in Bury St Edmunds, including endoscopic prostate surgery and laparoscopic ‘keyhole’ surgery, as well as a one stop clinic for the diagnosis and management of breast cancer. In later years Michael took up contemporary reconstructive breast surgery using new techniques. Due to the lack of private medical facilities in the area, Michael and his colleagues raised money with local businesses to build a private hospital in Bury St Edmunds, which was opened in 1979 by the Duchess of Gloucester and is now run by the Circle Health Group. Michael served as a governor of this hospital for eight years. Michael was very interested in teaching and training juniors, especially surgical skills and new techniques (for example TURP, laparoscopic cholecystectomy). He was described as ‘an exceptional teacher and trainer’ with an enquiring and questioning approach to surgery, not content simply to accept received dogma. He was a surgical and clinical tutor at the West Suffolk Hospital Postgraduate Centre as well as a university clinical teacher at Cambridge, running local and regional courses for students. He was awarded a Hunterian professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1973 and elected to the Court of Examiners, serving on regional and national committees for 10 years (five years as secretary), assessing and organising training in UK hospitals. He was also a visiting Royal College of Surgeons of England examiner in Sri Lanka, Cairo and Edinburgh. In 1986 he published *Postgraduate surgery: the candidate’s guide* (London, Heinemann Medical) in collaboration with M A R Al-Fallouji – a comprehensive text for higher surgical examinations and a practical guide for surgical trainees. Michael also co-wrote the step module for the MRCS exam and served on several postgraduate committees at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He also lectured on surgical skills courses run by St Thomas’ and the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London, Cambridge and Norwich. He served six years on the General Medical Council’s professional linguistic assessment board, setting exams for and validating foreign medical graduates. For 10 years he was a medical member of the pensions appeal tribunal in the Lord Chancellor’s department, assessing war veterans for appropriate pensions. He retired from NHS work in 1999 and from private practice two years later. In retirement Michael volunteered at the Wellcome Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where he taught, lectured and demonstrated to school leavers and students, as well as cataloguing and archiving the exhibits. Michael supported the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and the Cheselden Club, a forum for St Thomas’ trained surgeons. He and Tessa were also enthusiastic members of the Surgical Sixty Club, a travelling club which visits both UK and overseas hospitals, hosting their own meeting at Bury St Edmunds in 1996. In retirement he enjoyed golf and socialising at the Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Club, as well as cricket at Lord’s, shooting, fly fishing, bridge, and a new-found skill of watercolour painting. Over time he was content simply to work in his garden and spend time with his children and grandchildren. Michael and Tessa were married for 57 years and had happy times together, regularly entertaining at home in Suffolk and often travelling to the US, Italy and Switzerland in particular. Michael was a generous host and a charming, enthusiastic, cheerful and positive all-rounder, with an ever-present wit. At the same time, he was not afraid to be different and do his own thing. He could be contrarian at times, often arguing an opposing view, always in pursuit of perfection. He would readily admit that he could not have achieved anything without his devoted wife Tessa, who ran the family home and made everything possible behind the scenes. Michael died on 10 September 2021 at the age of 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Ware, Colin Clement (1932 - 2017)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Brian Sterry Ashby
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381832381832
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Colin Clement Ware was a consultant general and vascular surgeon to the Southend-on-Sea Hospital Group, Essex, from 1971 to 1992. He was born in Barking, East London, on 16 July 1932. His father, Albert Ware, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Annie Jelley, had been employed in the Post Office. He was educated initially at South East Essex Technical College, and went on to King's College, London. He took a BSc in chemistry in 1954. He then did his medical training at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified with his MB BS in 1962, when he was awarded the University of London gold medal in obstetrics. Colin Ware particularly enjoyed the surgical aspects of his studies and early training. After qualifying, his junior hospital posts included a period at St James' Hospital, Balham, which was at that time a widely acknowledged surgical training unit. He completed his FRCS in 1965. He subsequently became a lecturer in surgery at St Thomas' Hospital, and was then appointed as a senior registrar in surgery back at Westminster Hospital. In 1971, he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon to the Southend-on-Sea Hospital Group, where he had also previously served in a junior surgical post. Though appointed to Southend as a general surgeon, he soon developed a major special interest in vascular surgery, and became an acknowledged expert in the field, especially in the surgical management of aortic aneurysms. His other special interest was urological surgery, with which he was still able to continue after the appointment of a specialist urological surgeon to Southend. He was a very intelligent man, but also kind and gentle, and popular in his contacts with patients, colleagues and staff. Colin married Jean Marian Martin, who was also a medical practitioner, qualifying MB BS in 1957, one of the earliest female medical graduates from St Bartholomew's Hospital. She entered community medicine was a particular interest in family planning. Colin and Jean had four daughters, all of whom survived their parents: Helen and Elizabeth are both teachers, Marian trained in investment banking, and Judith trained as a physiotherapist. There are 14 grandchildren. Despite his busy life as a surgeon, Colin Ware was clearly a family man. He was a devoted father and grandfather. He was also a keen sailor, an interest he maintained since university days. He kept a yacht when he was at Southend, and taught his children to sail. As a member of the Thorpe Bay Yacht Club for many years, he was a regular race winner on the Thames Estuary. He eventually graduated to a 30ft sail cruiser, on which he took the family on trips across the Channel to France and the Low Countries, and one year competed in the Round the Island Race. He was also an enthusiastic hockey player at club level and for many years played for Southend and Benfleet Hockey Club. Colin was a committed Christian and drew great strength and inspiration from the local church community at Shoeburyness and Thorpe Bay Baptist Church near his home in Southend, serving as a deacon there for many years. Even with his heavy work schedule, he always made himself available for help and advice when needed. Jean and Colin were bound by a profound love and commitment to each other and she strongly supported him during the years of study and long working hours as a surgeon. In 1992, he took early retirement, and they moved from Southend to the village of Mickleton, near Chipping Camden in the Cotswolds. Being able to make friends easily and always alert to the needs of others, he soon established himself, serving various functions with the local Methodist Church. He became a volunteer community bus driver, and a volunteer with the National Trust at nearby Hidcote Gardens. Sadly, Jean's health began to decline and their roles reversed, and he cared for her for a number of years. In early 2016, Colin has a severe stroke. He recovered partially after a period of several weeks in rehabilitation but not sufficiently to return home alone, and he made his own decision to leave Mickleton and enter a care home in Oxford, near the home of one of his daughters. Jean had developed advanced Alzheimer's disease and had already been in a nursing home for over 10 years. With the assistance of friends and family, Colin made regular visits to Jean during the last six months of her life. Though she was virtually unresponsive, these visits seemed to benefit them both. Jean predeceased Colin by seven months in the spring of 2017. Colin died on 1 November 2017, aged 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Wightman, John Alan Keightley (1930 - 2000)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Alan Keightley Wightman was a consultant surgeon in Chesterfield. He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 11 April 1930, where his father, John Andrew Wightman, was a pharmacist. His mother was Doris Mary née Keightley. He was educated at Nottingham High School and the University of Sheffield. After house jobs, he went off to do his National Service in the RAMC, where he served in the British Military Hospitals in Singapore and Hong Kong. He returned to specialise in urology under Jock Anderson in Sheffield, though he never entirely gave up general surgery and indeed was co-author of an authoritative paper on familial polyposis of the colon. In 1968, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Hospital Chesterfield and clinical lecturer in surgery at the University of Sheffield. After he retired in 1994 he went for a year to Kuala Lumpur as a visiting associate professor in urology. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and served on its Council from 1985 to 1988, to represent the interests of general surgeons with an interest in urology - the associate members. He was a College tutor from 1980 to 1990, and an external assessor in general surgery and urology. He was an enthusiastic golfer and stamp collector, and enjoyed travel. In 1956, he married his ward sister, Ann Hancock. They had one son, John Andrew, and three girls, Susan Jane, Sally and Kate Elisabeth. The eldest daughter, Susan Jane, became a general practitioner. He died on 20 October 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Geoffrey Edward (1902 - 1973)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Geoffrey Edward Parker was born on 24 June 1902 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Hove, Marlborough College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He came to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the Cambridge MB in 1926. Two years later he took the FRCS. After holding junior posts at St Thomas's, the West London Hospital, and the National Temperance Hospital he ultimately became consultant surgeon to the French Hospital, the Italian Hospital and the Woolwich Group. He was specially interested in urology. During all this time his career closely resembled that of many a London surgeon, but it was in the latter part of the second world war that he distinguished himself to a unique degree. He served with the RAMC from 1942 in North Africa and Italy, but also acquired special experience in parachute jumping, unarmed combat and the use of small arms. Early in 1944 he was parachuted into France in the Jura mountains and worked as a surgeon with the Maquis, caring for the resistance fighters with supreme courage which was rewarded by the DSO in 1945, and also by the Croix de Guerre with Palm and Gold Star, and he was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. Later he received honours also from Belgium and Italy. His experiences were described in his books *The black scalpel* 1968 *and Surgical cosmopolis* 1970. At Cambridge Parker was awarded a blue for boxing, and he also played squash and golf. In later life he did a good deal of writing and painting, his pictures having appeared in exhibitions in England, France and America. In 1930 he married Kathleen Hewlett Johnson and had two sons and a daughter. This marriage was dissolved and in 1967 he married Margaret Lois Wilsdon who survived him. Parker died on 5 December 1973 at the age of 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Osborne, David Robert (1943 - 2008)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-07-10 2015-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details David Osborne was a consultant surgeon who established the first urological department in Basildon. He was born in Weston-super-Mare on 12 December 1943, the son of Alan John Osborne, a leading aircraftman, and his wife, Tilly Fleming née Straiton. He was educated at Hazelcroft Primary School and then Weston-super-Mare Grammar School. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School from 1963 to 1968, winning the Ruth Bowden anatomy prize and the George Quist surgery prize, and playing in the first XV rugby team. After qualifying, he was a house officer at Hampstead General Hospital and then at St Andrew's Hospital. In 1970 he was a casualty officer at the Royal Free. He then held senior house officer posts at Luton and Dunstable, and at Frenchay and Southmeads hospitals, Bristol. He was then a registrar in general surgery at Cheltenham and Gloucester. From 1976 to 1983 he was a lecturer in surgery at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1983 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology to Basildon and Thurrock hospitals. In 1985 he became a consultant surgeon to South Ockendon Hospital and in 1991 became head of the department of urology with full-time responsibility for urology services. He established a specialist urology department with three surgeons, each with a subspecialty interest. He was interested in reading, gardening, walking and painting, and loved fine wines. In 1969 he married Brenda Mary Cornforth, a general practitioner and a fellow student at the Royal Free, who was the daughter of Sir J W Cornforth FRS KBE. They had one son, Andrew John (a GP in New Zealand), and a daughter, Catherine Jane (a marketing manager). He died on 17 October 2008. His love of surgery was so great that he continued seeing patients and operating until three weeks before he died.
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First Title value, for Searching Bowsher, Winsor Graham (1957 - 2004)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-14
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Winsor Bowsher was a consultant urological surgeon at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He was born on Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, the son of Graham Walter Bowsher, an art teacher, and Marjorie Wilfred née Munday, who taught public speaking. He was educated at Brockenhurst Grammar School and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he won a blue for golf. He did his clinical studies at the Royal London Hospital and was house surgeon to John Blandy, who inspired his interest in urology. He completed his general surgical training at Nottingham and Cardiff, before starting the senior registrar rotation at the Institute of Urology and St Bartholomew’s. He was then a lecturer and senior registrar at the Royal London, where he completed the research for his MChir thesis. In 1990 he was awarded the Shackman and Sir Alexander McCormack travelling fellowships of our college, going to St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, as visiting fellow and later staff consultant. There he carried out innovative laparoscopic surgery and radical prostatectomy for cancer. Shortly after his return he was appointed to the Royal Gwent Hospital in 1993 with Brian Peeling, where he rapidly established a reputation. He set up a trial of radical prostatectomy, published widely, edited *Challenges in prostate cancer* (Malden, MA, Blackwell Science, 2000), and was on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology*, *Prostate* and the European Board of Urology *Update* series. He set up a support group for prostate cancer patients called Progress, which was the first of its kind in the UK, and in 1996 was medical adviser to the BBC series *The male survival guide*, which won six BMA gold awards. He was married to Pauline and had three children, Harry, Abigail and Nicholas. A man of great charm and enthusiasm, Winsor was a keen fly fisherman, skier and mountaineer. In his last years he had a brief but successful battle with alcohol, but, having completely recovered, died suddenly from cardiac arrhythmia on 12 May 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Calvert, Denis George (1928 - 1999)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Denis George Calvert was a consultant surgeon at Gloucester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Belfast on 23 April 1928, where his father Thomas George Calvert was an insurance manager. His mother, Isobel née Stafford, was the daughter of the fire chief of Belfast. He was educated at Epsom and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Freer Lucas scholarship and the Asher Asher prize. After junior posts at Harold Wood, Mount Vernon and the Middlesex Hospitals, he did his National Service in the RAMC, and then spent a year as a ship's surgeon on the Orient Line in 1956. He returned to become paediatric surgical registrar at the Westminster, registrar at Kettering Hospital and senior registrar at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he worked for Robert Cooke. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Gloucester Royal Hospital in 1967, where he made urology his special interest. He was a member of council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He was not afraid to embrace new technology and, when the minimally invasive technique of percutaneous nephrolithotomy came to the fore from the Institute of Urology in the mid 1980's, Denis had the foresight to appreciate this major advance and pressed for the appointment at Gloucester of a talented interventional radiologist, allowing him to become one of the first urologists outside London to remove renal stones percutaneously. By the time he retired in 1990 he had, with colleagues, been instrumental in building the Gloucester surgical department into a first class unit with sub-specialisation well developed. In 1962 he married Penelope Vince, and they had two sons, David and Ian, and one daughter, Sarah. His retirement was relaxed and enjoyable, playing golf, gardening and adding to his extensive wine collection. Sadly, in 1998 he developed lung cancer, showing great courage in the terminal stages of his illness. He died on 24 April 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Pocock, John Arthur (1905 - 1968)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Arthur Pocock, the son of a general practitioner, was born on 22 August 1905. He went to school at Oundle and then to Cambridge and University College, London, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1928. He took the Cambridge degree in 1931 and the FRCS in 1934, and after some junior appointments in London went to Bristol where he became senior resident officer and surgical registrar in 1937. At this early stage in his career he already showed the selfless devotion to his duties and to the welfare of his patients which was to be the outstanding feature for the rest of his life. His training at Bristol was interrupted by the second world war when he joined the RAF and served in many parts of the world till he finally landed in Egypt as a Wing-Commander in charge of a surgical division. After the war he returned to Bristol, and in 1946 was appointed surgeon to the Bristol Royal Hospital. With the advent of the NHS he became consultant surgeon to the United Bristol Hospitals and to Southwood Hospital. For many years Pocock was treasurer of the Surgical Club of South-West England, and a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons for although he was a general surgeon he always had a special interest in urology. His conscientious and competent discharge of his clinical duties won the confidence and the admiration of his colleagues who came to rely on his judgement and skill not only for their patients but for any member of their family in need of surgical treatment. Yet it was his outstanding personality and his manner of treating every patient as a personal problem which was of such special value in the training of his juniors, and for which he will long be remembered by all who were associated with him. When he died on 25 September 1968 after a long and trying illness he was survived by his wife Barbara and their daughter and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Donoghue, Patrick Desmond (1922 - 2004)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Hilary Keighley
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2015-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Patrick Desmond O'Donoghue was a surgeon in Kenya. He was born in Kaiapoi, New Zealand, on 12 May 1922, the second son of Michael and Eva O'Donoghue. His father was a teacher and later schools inspector. Pat attended Christchurch Boys' High School, where he excelled in classics, sciences, literature, languages and sport, particularly cricket and rugby. He had a formidable intellect and he loved to write poetry and prose. He went on to study medicine at the University of Otago. He spent two years in house jobs in Christchurch, where he developed his particular interest in urology, and then, in 1949, sailed to England as a ship's doctor to specialise in surgery. He did a number of junior posts, including one at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and then became a registrar to Sir Cecil Wakeley at King's College Hospital. There he met Brenda Davies, an anaesthetics registrar at King's, and they were married in 1952. He went on to be a surgical registrar to Neville Stidolph at the Whittington Hospital for two years, gaining extensive experience in genito-urinary surgery, before going on to be RSO at St Paul's under Winsbury-White, Howard Hanley and David Innes Williams. This was followed by six months at the Brompton Hospital under Sir Clement Price Thomas and Charles Drew, who, in 1955, supported him with enthusiasm when he considered applying for a vacancy at St Mary's. However, at the same time a vacancy came up in Nairobi, for which he opted after much deliberation. His first appointment there was as a locum for Sir Michael Wood with the East African Flying Doctor Association, which cemented his love for the country and its people, and his desire to make a life for himself and his family in Kenya. From this he went on to become a partner in the Nairobi Clinic, where he rapidly developed an outstanding reputation as a very professional, capable and compassionate surgeon. He developed free outreach clinics for the Flying Doctor Service, covering remote areas of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, where surgery was often difficult and performed under the most basic conditions. He described operating in Tanzania where the humidity was so great that the door of the room had to be kept open, despite the many onlookers. There were times when the throng of patients delayed the departure of the flying doctor and when the runway lights were switched off at the small airport in Nairobi they had to land unannounced at the international airport, pursued by a meteor of which they were unaware, which landed close behind them. Pat was also chief surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, doing pro bono surgery for missionaries and many others. The bulk of his work was at the Nairobi Hospital, where he was well respected and liked by colleagues and nursing staff. Although he specialised in urology, he remained a very general surgeon, dealing with a wide variety of injuries, including severe mauling by leopards, buffaloes, rhinos and elephants. People were also flown in with spear injuries from inter-tribal battles and he also treated casualties from the ANC (African National Congress) bombing of the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi. Occasionally he was asked to escort patients back to their homes in other countries, including a cardinal who needed to be taken back to Rome, where Pat had an audience with Pope John XXIII. In 1968 he became president of the East African Association of Surgeons, and was instrumental in setting up the equivalent of a coroner's court, essential to protect both surgeons and patients in the ever-increasing world of litigation, a move which was approved by the attorney general in 1969. Pat led a very full and productive working life. He loved his surgery. Even after retirement he continued to read his medical and surgical journals with great interest, and wanted to be up to date with the evidence emerging from recent research. Golf was among his many interests: he continued to play until he could no longer walk round the course (he scorned the use of buggies). He loved to learn, particularly poetry and literature. He would often quote, among others, Keats, Yeats, Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas. He remembered passages from Virgil - he loved Latin. Pat and Brenda raised their four daughters (Gillian, Jenny, Geraldine and Hilary) in Nairobi. In 2002 Brenda unexpectedly died whilst on holiday in England. This was a terrible blow for Pat. He had described Brenda as his 'life's navigator'. He returned to Kenya for one more year and then moved to be with his daughter Hilary in Cooma, Australia. Pat made Cooma his home for a further year, before he passed away on 22 December 2004, aged 82. He had a strong Christian faith throughout his life and he had a wonderful, quiet sense of humour that remained with him until the day he died. He was an inspirational person.
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First Title value, for Searching Riddle, Peter Riversdale (1933 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2013-10-18
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Peter Riddle was a well-known urologist who worked all his consultant life in London. He was emeritus surgeon at University College London and at St Peter's Hospital, and had been sub-dean at the Institute of Urology. He was born on 1 September 1933. His father, Leonard, was an assurance broker and his mother, Beatrice Helen Valentine née Colyer Fergusson, a housewife. He had at least two medical forebears. His great-great grandfather, Sir William Fergusson, became president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1870 and was Serjeant-Surgeon to HM Queen Victoria. The second medical ancestor was John Coakley Lettsom, a Quaker physician and philanthropist, who founded the Medical Society of London in 1773. Peter was educated privately at Colet house, the preparatory school to St Paul's School. He progressed through the junior to the senior school, where he won academic prizes in languages and gained colours in athletics, and boxed for the school team. Following his illustrious forebears, Peter went into medicine, studying first at King's College, London, and then gained an entrance exhibition in anatomy and physiology to St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. He participated to the full as social secretary of the medical school and continued his pugilistic activities in the first VII boxing team. Peter qualified in 1957 and became a house surgeon at St George's Hospital to Sir Marriott F Nicholls, a general surgeon with wide interests including urology, who was elected president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). Following further house appointments at St George's and University College Hospital, Peter carried out his National Service as a captain in the RAMC. He then became a research fellow and a senior registrar at St Mary's Hospital, before undertaking a resident surgical officer post at St Peter's Hospital, London. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon at St Peter's and was sub-dean at the Institute of Urology. He also worked for many years at St George's Hospital until it merged with St James' Hospital, Balham. He strongly disapproved of this merger, which prompted him to resign from his post. From 1974 for a few years he was on the staff of the Central Middlesex Hospital, replacing J D Fergusson. Peter continued on the staff of the Royal Masonic Hospital until he retired. He was an honorary consultant to the Army and gave long service to the War Pensions Appeals Committee. He was a regional adviser at the Royal College of Surgeons for many years and was a lecturer on fellowship courses organised at Lincoln's Inn Fields. He published widely over the years starting in 1963 and wrote some 40 papers on urological malignancy and operative surgery. He contributed to several textbooks, including those by Rodney Smith and Charles Rob, and also wrote chapters in three editions of R M Kirk's book on surgery. He was a regular attender at the meetings of the urology section of the RSM, serving on the council and as secretary. He was also on the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. In honour of John Coakley Lettsom, Peter served on the council of the Medical Society of London, as secretary and then as vice president. He was also a director of St Peter's Trust for Kidney, Bladder and Prostate Research. Outside of medicine, Peter had a great interest in restoring and running vintage cars, his favourite being a 'bull-nosed Morris'. In his earlier days he was a keen squash player, but admitted that, when playing golf, his handicap was rather high. Painting was a later interest and for many years he enjoyed skiing, particularly at the winter 'uro-ski' meetings of the section of urology of the RSM. These annual events of 'urological fellowship' were started by Ken Owen of St Mary's Hospital when members and their wives visited Obergurgl. The meetings combined science and exercise on the ski slopes. In-house morning discussions and lectures were followed by skiing (or walking) until early evening. Peter had more than his fair share of medical problems, of which he made light, including a nephrectomy, parotid surgery and radiotherapy, artificial hip replacements and coronary artery by-pass surgery. Prone to vascular problems, he lost the sight in one eye, but wore a black patch and continued to live a normal life. Peter's marriage to Kitty née Berkley, by whom he had a son, Jonathan, was dissolved. Jonathan has a son, William, and lives in an isolated part of Wales. When living in retirement near Stonehenge, Peter met Rosemary ('Rosie') Page, whom he had first known when he was a house surgeon at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, and she was a staff nurse. They fell in love and married in 1995, and Rosie and Peter shared many happy years. Peter was an excellent stepfather to her twins, Jay and Maria, and also to her daughter, Annalisa. Together they maintained a large garden and Peter continued painting to a high standard in watercolours and oil. On his second marriage he became a Roman Catholic. He died peacefully on 1 January 2011, aged 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Blandy, John Peter (1927 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Christopher Woodhouse
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2012-12-21
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Blandy was professor of urology at the Royal London Hospital and the Institute of Urology. He was a product of the old Empire, from which he inherited many wonderful characteristics and none of the bad ones. His father was Sir E Nicholas Blandy. At the time of John's birth in the Edith Cavell nursing home in Calcutta on 11 September 1927, Sir Nicholas was serving as assistant commissioner in Barisal. The district was then a part of Bengal and now is in Bangladesh. John's mother was Dorothy Kathleen Blandy née Marshall. It was unusual for the children of the Empire to be born overseas, as it was considered too dangerous. John's older brother had died at birth in India and his father's first wife of cholera. His mother was, therefore, sent back to England for the birth of John's older sister, Helen. As this had gone well, John was delivered in India, but went to England at the age of three for safety from the diseases of the East and, later, to begin school at Edinburgh House, Lee-on Solent. For much of this period he was separated from his parents, who were busy governing India. Nonetheless, he had a happy childhood at a school that encouraged learning from a much broader curriculum than was usual. He lived with a family that looked after many other children whose parents were overseas. At the beginning of the war, he re-joined his parents in India and went to prep school in Darjeeling. Here he developed his love of painting. He excelled at academic work. In the 1942 school certificate exam in English he wrote an essay on all eight questions when only four were required, but still came first amongst all the candidates from India. His father died in the same year. The family returned to England, at great peril from U-boats and John went to Clifton College in Bristol. In 1947 he won a scholarship to Balliol, Oxford, and went up to read medicine in the following year. His anatomy tutor was Le Gros Clark. Clinical training began at the London Hospital in 1948. Apart from the ward work, particularly influenced by Donald Hunter (editor of *Hutchison's clinical method* and specialist in occupational diseases), he further developed his painting and became a proficient skier. He graduated in 1951 and did house jobs at the London, the first with Clifford Wilson. In 1953, he married Anne Mathias, a staff nurse at the London, daughter of Hugh Mathias. It was a happy marriage from the very start and John records in his memoirs that they skipped down the altar steps in Tenby, on the way to a honeymoon in Lincolnshire. They had four daughters, Su, Caroline, Nikki and Kitty. All have followed in the footsteps of their parents, Kitty as an artist, Su as a paediatrician, and Caroline and Nikki as nurses. He was no sooner married than he was sent off to the RAMC to do his National Service. He had several postings in the UK, ending as medical officer in Cowglen. There he wrote his first paper on a stress fracture of the femoral neck following excessive route marching. Once back to civilian life, he began a meteoric career in surgery, leading on to urology, then considered to be a small subspecialty. He was an assistant to Victor Dix at the London Hospital. In 1960 he was awarded a Robertson visiting fellowship at Presbyterian St Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Here he researched the use of intestine for the construction of continent urinary reservoirs. This formed the basis of his doctoral thesis which was awarded in 1963. The other most important outcome of his service in Chicago was to learn transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). This operation was hardly known in the UK, where Millin's open prostatectomy was still the popular operation for the benignly enlarged prostate. On his return to the London, he began a protracted battle to establish this new and much less traumatic operation. It was certainly an uphill task, partly because it was difficult to learn to do well and partly because 'general surgeons with an interest in urology' felt that the open operation that they had learnt as registrars was much superior. John's excellent text book on TURP (*Transurethral resection* London, Pitman Medical) was first published in 1971. It remains the standard work on the subject. While climbing the training ladder at the London and later as resident medical officer at St Peter's Hospitals, he published on a wide range of topics including the vascular anatomy of the colonic wall, bladder cancer and testicular cancer. He also designed a set of retractors for the newly described Gil-Vernet operation for staghorn calculus. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the London in 1964. Although nominally a generalist, he immediately began to work almost exclusively in urology with the support of Gerald Tresidder. Together they worked to raise the standards of urological care introducing, amongst other things, the revolutionary idea that cystoscopies should be done with sterile water rather than tap water which was usually contaminated with *Pseudomonas pyocynea*! In his training he had been strongly influenced by David Innes Williams, the pioneer of paediatric urology. He was elected to the Society for Paediatric Urology and developed surgery for children, especially hypospadias, at the London. This led on to work on the surgery of urethral strictures, then treated mainly by repeated urethral dilatation. He used and developed the two stage inlay urethroplasty devised by his colleague, Richard Turner Warwick. Renal transplants were the great surgical excitement of the 1960s and were started at the London by John and the vascular surgeon, Douglas Eadie. In 1968 he was appointed a consultant at St Peter's Hospitals at the same time as John Wickham and Richard Turner Warwick. In the following year he was awarded a personal chair in urology. His output of research papers is legendary. He wrote in a style that encouraged readership and did many of the illustrations himself. His books were all medical best-sellers and strongly influenced his students and trainees. Most UK medical students learnt their urology from his *Lecture notes in urology* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific). Many of today's consultants did their research in his department and owe their careers to his unstinting support. He travelled widely as a guest lecturer and visiting professor, often being elected as an honorary member of the relevant national urological society. He was council member of the Royal College of Surgeons, chairman of the training board and vice president from 1984 to 1986. It was due in large part to his influence that the first part of the FRCS became an exam on surgery in general as an entrance to higher surgical training. The final FRCS became a qualifying exam in the chosen sub-specialty. Amongst many other achievements, he was president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) from 1984 to 1986, of the European Association of Urology (1988) and of the European Board in Urology (1991 to 1992). He was elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons (1977). In the New Year honours of 1995 the Queen appointed him CBE for services to surgery. He was awarded the St Peter's medal of BAUS in 1982 and the Willy Grégoir medal of the Société Internationale d'Urologie in 2001. Although medicine in general and urology in particular were the areas in which he was best known, he was truly a renaissance man. He read widely, but also enjoyed tinkering with the broken engines of motor cycles and cars that he had as a registrar. While returning from India in 1942 he helped to repair the broken engine of his ship. Both in working life and in retirement, he was a fine painter and sculptor. It was easy to know when a committee meeting had become too long as he would get out his pad and quietly sketch his fellow sufferers. At dinner in the RCS he used to tour the portraits with other guests, give a learned critique of the artist and a life history of the subject. He died on 23 July 2011 from a sarcoma. His funeral was private, but a memorial service in St Giles, Cripplegate, next to his home in the Barbican was full with family, friends and colleagues. The eulogies, readings and music, including the drinking song from act one of *La Traviata*, reflected his joy of life and enthusiasm for the achievements of his family and students.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, George (1920 - 1997)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details George Harrison was born on 3 January 1920 in Leeds. His father, also George Harrison, was an engineer. He was educated at Cockburn High School in Leeds and Leeds University Medical School, where he was strongly influenced by Archie Derwood, won the anatomy prize and at first intended to be an anatomist. As a student he often watched Beecham rehearsing his orchestra, which had been evacuated to Leeds. After house jobs in Leeds, he became a demonstrator in anatomy, and then did a junior job with Henry Hamilton Stewart in Bradford, who was one of the pioneers of transurethral prostatectomy by means of the cold punch. Henry Stewart was very impressed: George Harrison had extraordinary manual skill, being ambidextrous, he could write beautifully with either hand and was a successful amateur magician. During the war he was not called up, but served as RSO in Bradford, which received large numbers of wounded after initial treatment in the South of England. He was appointed resident surgical officer and later first assistant to Henry Stewart in Leeds and ultimately returned to Leeds as surgical tutor. He was appointed consultant in Derby in 1952 at the Royal Infirmary, the City Children's Hospital and the City Hospital. He was a true general surgeon: he once likened surgery for oesophageal atresia to "sewing together two wet cigarette ends". He started vascular surgery in Derby when grafts were hand sewn from Terylene shirt tails, and he had to teach his radiologists how to do a translumbar aortogram in the post-mortem room. His main interest was in urology; he was renowned for his proficiency with the cold punch, only taking up the hot wire when the rod lens and fibre light became available. He was an enthusiastic surgical traveller, became secretary of the Punch Club and President of the 1921 Surgical Club. He was always interested in teaching practical surgery and was proud that at least four of his trainees ultimately became professors of surgery. In 1947, he married Muriel Robertshaw, a nurse he had met at Bradford. They had one daughter, Wendy and a son, G S M Harrison (Mark), who became a consultant urologist. He loved music, especially Mahler, played the piano occasionally, was a keen gardener, and was always making and mending things. He was made a senior Fellow of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, and received the Silver Jubilee medal in 1977. Outwardly dour - one of his anaesthetists described his appearance as one of "*diabolical discontent*" - underneath there was a delightful and sympathetic sense of humour, but he could be very direct, especially if he smelt pomposity. In 1993, he suffered a massive coronary thrombosis with ventricular septal perforation and underwent two open heart operations. He died on 3 January 1997, on his 77th birthday, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren, Rachel, Ruth and Frances.
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First Title value, for Searching Forrest, Hugh (1929 - 1996)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Hugh Forrest, whose father was a draughtsman and whose mother, Annie Tough Hay was a secretary, was born in Greenock on 12 June 1929. His initial education was at Greenock High School, where he won a poster prize for National Savings; he then went on to medical school in Glasgow, graduating in 1955 with distinction in surgery and having won the William Hunter Medal for practical anatomy. He had completed his two years' National Service in the Royal Air Force (1947-1949) before going up to university, serving in the medical branch of the RAF as a corporal. After a period of training in general surgery based at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, he became interested in peripheral vascular disease and went to Heidelberg, Germany, for specialist training in vascular surgery. His consultant career started at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow in 1967, where he was appointed consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology, this appointment lasting until 1973. He then became a consultant general surgeon with a special interest in vascular surgery at the Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, in 1973. In both centres he expanded the existing vascular service, building up busy vascular units which attracted referrals throughout the west of Scotland. He served the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in many capacities and on many committees, and was a member of the College Council between 1985 and 1989. He was much concerned with surgical audit, an interest which he carried on into retirement as Chairman of the Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, whose first annual report was published in December 1995. He was an examiner for the Fellowship in the Primary and the Final in pathology and surgery, was President of the West of Scotland Surgical Association, and represented Scotland on the Council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, of which he had been a Fellow since 1972. Following retirement in 1991, in addition to his professional activities he developed a consuming interest in drawing and painting, taking classes and exhibiting his work. He also enjoyed golf, building remote control model boats from scratch, and trout fishing, becoming president of the local BMA Angling Club and winning the 1994 trophy at Loch Walton Angling Club. Another great interest was poetry, and the life and poems of Robert Burns. In 1959 he was ordained as an Elder in the Church of Scotland. The depth of his faith was reflected in his life and work, and his wisdom, experience and ability to put people at ease, whatever the circumstances, were well recognised among his friends and colleagues and much appreciated by his patients. In June 1963 he married Alison Hunter RGN, who survived him, together with their two sons Alan and Ewan, one a mathematician and the other a physician. He died of pancreatic adenocarcinoma on 11 February 1996.
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First Title value, for Searching Everidge, John (1884 - 1955)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Son of James Walter Everidge, he was educated at King's College School and King's College Hospital, where he was junior scholar in 1904, senior scholar in 1907 and Alfred Hughes anatomy prizeman. He qualified in 1908, and in 1912 became Sambrooke surgical registrar and surgical tutor at King's College Hospital. During the first world war Everidge served as a surgical specialist in France and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the OBE. He held the rank of Major RAMC and was subsequently nicknamed "The Major" by several decades of students. After the war Everidge returned to King's as junior urological surgeon, and in 1929, when his chief Sir John Thomson-Walker retired, he became senior urologist and lecturer on urology. Beyond his own hospital he held numerous appointments, including those of consultant to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank and to the London County Council. He was President of the Listerian Society of King's College Hospital 1922-23. During the second world war Everidge was one of the senior staff at Horton Emergency Hospital, and in 1939-40 he was President of the Section of Urology at the Royal Society of Medicine. At the end of the war, when he was due to retire from the staff of King's, Everidge was appointed active consulting urological surgeon and in 1953 the title of emeritus lecturer was conferred on him in recognition of his long and valuable service to the medical school of King's College Hospital. In 1950 he had been made a Fellow of King's College, and he was a member of the Association Internationale d'Urologie. Everidge wrote numerous papers on his specialty and contributed articles to the leading textbooks. For some years he was Chairman of the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Urology*. He was a member of council and a former treasurer of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, but he refused the Presidency because of slight deafness. Everidge was a keen sportsman: in his youth he was an enthusiastic lawn tennis player and later he took up golf and fishing and was a member of the Flyfishers' Club. John Everidge was one of the leading urological surgeons of his time: he was a pioneer in transurethral prostatic surgery from 1927, and played a part in the development of the modern resectoscope. Everidge married Kathleen I Robertson and they had one son and one daughter. He always remained young by keeping up with new surgical procedures and by his liking for student activities, dances and fast cars. He died on 8 June 1955 after a long illness at his home, 7 Wimpole Street, aged 71. Publications: Urinary surgery in *Modern Operative Surgery*, ed G Grey Turner, 2, 1934. Nephroureterectomy, *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1940, 33, 295.
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First Title value, for Searching Keyes, Edward Loughborough (1873 - 1949)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 15 May 1873 at Elizabeth, New Jersey, son of Edward Lawrence Keyes (1843-1924) afterwards distinguished as a genito-urinary surgeon in New York, he was educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, graduating in 1895. Keyes practised as a urological surgeon and rose to the highest eminence in his specialty, as his father did before him. In 1904 he was appointed to the staff of Cornell University Medical College, New York City, and taught there till the end of his life, becoming eventually emeritus professor of clinical surgery (urology). During 1903-8 he was professor of urology at the New York Policlinic Medical School and in 1910-11 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was surgeon to the New York Hospital, and to the Bellevue, Memorial, and St Vincent's Hospitals. During the first world war he was consultant in urology to the United States Army overseas, served in France, and was admitted to the French Legion of Honour as an Officer. He played a leading part in many professional societies, serving as president of the American Urological Association, the International Society of Urology, the Clinical Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, and the American Social Hygiene Association, which awarded him its first William Freeman Snow medal in 1935. He was also a vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was a frequent contributor to the *Journal of Urology*, while his textbooks *Surgical Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs*, written with his father in 1903, and *Urology* (1928) were very successful and influential. He was beloved and respected at home and abroad. He married twice: (1) Emma Willard Scudder by whom he had two sons and two daughters; (2) in 1948 Mrs Bessie Potter Vonnoh, sculptor, who survived him. He died in New York on 16 March 1949 aged 75. A portrait-medal of Keyes by P M Danemann was struck when he was president of the International Urological Congress in 1936; the College possesses an example of it, presented by Sir Hugh Lett, Bt, PRCS.
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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Oswald Lacy (1874 - 1942)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 2 September 1874, the second child of Joseph Addison and Marianne Brown his wife. He was educated at Marlborough College and at University College, London. After serving as house surgeon to (Sir) Victor Horsley at University College Hospital, where he formed a friendship with George Waugh, qv, he was surgical registrar there and at the West London Hospital. He then succeeded Waugh as resident medical superintendent at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. With the West London and the Hospital for Sick Children he maintained a life-long connexion, retiring as consulting surgeon to each. He was also surgeon to the Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square, the Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children, and the Chiswick Cottage Hospital. He was an original member of the medical advisory board of the Treloar Hospital at Alton and was the second chairman of its executive committee. Addison was a painstaking and careful operator, gifted with dexterity and gentleness; though of good judgement he liked to defer to the opinion of his colleagues. He was particularly interested in the surgery of children, and a pioneer in the treatment of developmental errors of the genito-urinary system. He was an active member of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society. Addison married in 1909 Kate Brown, MB BS London 1908, who survived him less than three months, but without children. He was a keen salmon-fisherman and a student of the bird-life of the London reservoirs. He died at Bradfield Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 8 January 1942, in his sixty-eighth year. Mrs Addison qualified from the London School of Medicine for Women. She was clinical assistant in the skin departments at University College Hospital, the Evelina Hospital, and the Royal Free Hospital; clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children and St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; and temporary physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars Road. She died suddenly on 24 March 1942. Publication: *Cystoscopy, in Garrod and Thursfield Diseases of children*.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David Ronald (1910 - 1994)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details David Ronald Davies, always 'DR' to his friends, was born on 11 May 1910 in Clydach, Swansea, and remained readily identifiable as a Welshman throughout a long surgical career in London, followed by retirement to Exmoor. After schooling at the Ystalyfera County School, which inevitably gave him an enthusiasm for rugby, he entered University College Hospital Medical School, from which he graduated in 1934. His talents were immediately appreciated, and after resident posts and passing the FRCS in 1937 he was appointed assistant to the surgical unit then directed by Wilfred Trotter, who had inspired so many young surgeons. At the outbreak of war he was taken on by the Emergency Medical Service as an assistant surgeon at University College Hospital and at the Hampstead General but he joined the RAMC in 1941 and served as lieutenant colonel, first in the United Kingdom and then in India. After demobilisation he was appointed to the staff of the Harrow Hospital and of the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Roehampton, but it was to UCH that he was to devote his career as a surgeon, teacher and administrator. He distinguished himself in all these roles and they absorbed all his enthusiasm, so that he found no reason to play any significant part in any wider surgical forum. Much of his work was urological, though he never abandoned general surgery. He became particularly expert in the surgery of the parathyroid glands, working with the research biochemist Charles Dent on the problems of hyperparathyroidism with renal calculus disease. He became a most influential member of the Board of Governors of the hospital and Chairman for many years of its medical committee at a time when new hospital buildings were being planned. He retired in 1978 to Withypool on Exmoor, and took little further part in medical business. In 1988 he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He died on 8 September 1994, survived by his wife Christine, née Thomson, whom he had married in 1940, and his three sons, Timothy, Evan and Jeremy.
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First Title value, for Searching Macalpine, James Barlow (1882 - 1960)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 11 February 1882 one of the four sons of Sir George Watson Macalpine Kt (1850-1920) of Accrington, a colliery owner, brick manufacturer and President of the Baptist Union, and of his wife Arianne, daughter of James Barlow JP of Accrington, he was educated at Mill Hill School and Manchester University. After qualifying with the Conjoint diploma and the degree of Manchester, he held office as house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and then, for postgraduate study, he went to the London Hospital and to Vienna. After the first war he was appointed to the surgical staff of the Salford Royal Hospital and founded the genito-urinary department as its first head, which became famous attracting postgraduates from far and wide. He was also consulting urological surgeon to the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, being a pioneer in the use of radiotherapy for malignant disease of the urinary tract. He was one of the members of the original Urological Club and a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, being the first recipient of the St Peter's Medal in 1949. He had been President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1934, and was best known for his contribution to the knowledge of the pathology and treatment of bladder tumours, a subject upon which he delivered a Hunterian lecture in 1947. His book *Cystoscopy and Urography* first published in 1927, which ran to three editions, being translated into Italian in 1951, is a classic, and he regularly contributed articles to the *British Medical Journal* and other periodicals on urological subjects. "Jim" was a gifted attractive personality with a great sense of humour and, being a man of means, was able to devote all his time and energy to the furtherance of urology as a specialty in Manchester and he was appointed honorary lecturer in urology to the University. In his youth he was a Rugby full back and sprinter, and later enjoyed golf, yachting, the piano and billiards. He retired to the Lake District and died at his home Michael's Nook, Grasmere, Westmorland on 17 March 1960 survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Lumb, Norman Peace Lacy (1891 - 1957)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1891, his medical education took place at St Thomas's Hospital. After qualification he obtained an appointment as clinical assistant in the skin department and then as casualty officer with a view to continuing as house surgeon. On the outbreak of war in 1914, however, he immediately joined the RAMC and served throughout the war being twice mentioned in dispatches and being demobilised with the rank of Major. After this he was resident physician at York Road Lying-In Hospital and a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. Having been admitted to the Fellowship in 1922, he joined a firm of general practitioners at Crewkerne as surgical partner with an appointment as surgeon to Crewkerne Hospital, but in 1927 he moved to Southsea as a practitioner, and in 1928 acted as surgical registrar at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. In 1929 he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon and abandoned general practice, becoming a consultant, but acting as a referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act. His interest became more particularly concentrated in the field of urology, and he established a department of urology at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital and also at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed consulting surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Cosham and Havant War Memorial, and in 1949 visiting surgeon to St Mary's Hospital which had become one of the Portsmouth group of hospitals. At one time he was secretary of the Southern Branch of the British Medical Association. He retired in 1954 and moved from Southsea to Chichester. He died on 6 September 1957 at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester survived by his widow, Connie, his son G N Lumb FRCS 1956, and his daughter Mary Saunders.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005274
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Richard Huw Patrick (1946 - 1995)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Huw Williams was born in Cardiff on 12 March 1946. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, where he qualified MB BCh in 1969. He trained in Cardiff where he became lecturer and was later Smith and Nephew research fellow in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was a founder member of the School of Postgraduate Studies in Medical Care at the University of Wales. In 1979 he was commissioned a surgeon lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Neath General Hospital in 1981. Having been a lecturer in Cardiff, he continued teaching students and postgraduates at Neath. He was a general surgeon of great merit, but it was in urology that he excelled. Huw was always great company and had a cheerful, vibrant personality. This was a great help in his organising capacity, and he played a full part in many medical societies and also in surgical administration in his hospital. He was involved in many research projects and published numerous papers in journals. Huw was devoted to his three children and in latter years, being a single parent, gave up private practice in order to be able to spend the maximum possible time with them. He and his family enjoyed sailing in his boat from Saundersfoot and also fishing. He was an expert skier. Being based in Neath, he supported Neath Rugby Club. His terminal illness - malignant lymphoma - necessitated him having a bone marrow transplant operation, total irradiation, and open heart surgery. He died on 15 January 1995 aged 48, and was survived by his son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Higham, Anthony Richard Charles (1907 - 1975)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Anthony Richard Charles Higham was born at Murree, Punjab, on 11 June, 1907, eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel B Higham, CIE, IMS, and Florence Parsons, whose father was acting Governor of Madras Presidency. He was educated at Epsom College, 1919-24, King's College, University of London, 1924-27 and St George's Hospital, 1927-32. At St George's he won a senior university scholarship, the Pollock Prize and Webb Prize. After house appointments at St George's Hospital, he became surgical registrar at Charing Cross, 1934-36, and surgeon at St Paul's Hospital in 1939 and urologist to Queen Mary's Hospital, E15. He was Dean of the Institute of Urology from 1951 to 1967 and a foundation member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He was a member of the International Society of Urology and Council Member of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Higham was a most enthusiastic and active soldier being commissioned RA (TA) in 1927 and transferred to the RAMC (TA) in 1930. He served in the second world war in the UK, Africa, Iraq, Sicily and Italy (acting Colonel OC 22nd General Hospital, 1945). He was awarded the TD in 1945 and the Polish Golden Cross of Merit (with swords) in 1948. He married Mary, daughter of I W.Shepley of Glossop in 1931. His wife died in 1970, leaving two sons. He listed Rugby football, photography and motor sport as his chief extra-curricular activities. He was a member of the RAC Club and continued to play squash with the professionals long after his peers had abandoned this activity! Higham retired from urological practice in 1974 and lived in Storrington, West Sussex, where he died on 13 June, 1975, aged 68.
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First Title value, for Searching Masina, Francis (Feerose Hormasji) (1909 - 1991)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Francis Masina was born in Bombay on 1 February 1909, the son of Hormasji Manekji Masina, FRCS, a famous surgeon in India and the first Parsee to obtain the English FRCS. Francis was the second of four children, all of whom graduated from Cambridge University and obtained English medical qualifications. The family bought a house in Cambridge for the education of the children and Francis attended the Leys School from 1923 to 1928, where he was captain of rugby and hockey and played in the cricket XI. He passed the Natural Sciences Tripos at Emmanuel College and was awarded a Blue for hockey. He qualified at Bart's and held appointments there, at the National Hospital, University College Hospital, the Miller Hospital (under Cecil Joll) and at the Wingfield Hospital, Oxford (under Professors Seddon and Trueta). After the second world war he specialized in urology. He was the Prophit Scholar of the RCS from 1947 to 1952, based at the Middlesex, St Peter's and All Saints Hospitals, under the aegis of Sir Eric Riches, and was awarded the Jacksonian Prize in 1949 for his essay on malignant disease of the bladder. He was appointed surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Sheffield, and the Beckett Hospital, Barnsley, where he worked until his retirement. His life's work is embodied in the paper which he wrote for the *British Journal of Surgery* in 1965, entitled 'Segmental resection for tumours of the urinary bladder'. He will be remembered as a dedicated and skilled surgeon, a man of exceptional courtesy, highly intelligent and thoughtful, and with strong religious convictions and the highest ethical standards. He died on 4 March 1991 at his home in Oxford, survived by his wife Edie and by his sister, Dr Meheru Masina.
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First Title value, for Searching Hopewell, John Prince (1920 - 2015)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Robert Morgan
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon Transplant surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Prince Hopewell, a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London, was a pioneer in the introduction of dialysis into the UK and the development of kidney transplantation. He was born on 1 December 1920, the fourth child and only son of Samuel Hopewell and Wilhelmina ('Daisy') Hopewell née Edwards. His father was a south London general practitioner who had come to London in order to study medicine from the island of St Helena. In later life John Hopewell was able to trace the history of the family by reference to his family Bible, a second edition (1540) of the *Great Bible* published for the first time in English under the direction of Henry VIII. Until the early 18th century the family had been textile workers in Nottinghamshire, but with the Industrial Revolution overseas trade opened up new possibilities and in 1813 a family member, Richard Prince, was dispatched to St Helena, ostensibly to collect an outstanding debt. Realising the trading potential of the island in the days of sail, he stayed and established a chandlery business which flourished for three generations. Thereafter all male offspring of the family continued to incorporate the name Prince. The coming of steam ships and the opening of the Suez Canal caused a diminution in trade, something that may have encouraged the family to support his father in seeking a medical education at the London Hospital, eventually settling in family practice in Brixton, where John was born. He had a happy childhood and from a prep school in Dulwich won an exhibition to Bradfield College, where he continued to succeed academically. Although lightly built and not, by his own reckoning, good at ball games, he succeeded in representing his school in fencing and cross country running. During those years he developed a puckish sense of humour (he was cast as Puck in the school play) and this amiable quality stayed with him throughout his long life. In 1938 he won a place to study medicine at King's College Hospital, the preclinical school of which was evacuated to Glasgow in the early years of the war. He qualified in 1943 and was appointed to surgical house jobs at King's and Horton, where he dealt with Londoners injured in bombing raids and then, in large numbers, the casualties from the Normandy landings. He was called up in 1945, serving in the RAMC in India, latterly as a captain who was sometimes the sole surgeon in isolated hospitals in Cochin and Deolali in the south of the country. He returned to King's in 1948 as a surgical registrar, working again for the orthopaedic surgeon H L C Wood, whose house surgeon he had been and who became a role model for his future professional career. During this time he also worked for J G Yates Bell, who stimulated his interest in urological surgery and took an interest in his future training. He qualified FRCS in 1950 and after a period of research at the Buxton Browne Farm at Downe, which resulted in him giving a Hunterian Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, he was appointed as a senior registrar in 1955 on a rotation between King's and Brighton. During the winter of 1955 to 1956 Yates Bell arranged for him a secondment to a leading urological department in San Francisco. It was there, at Stanford, that he first saw haemodialysis in action, where patients with polycystic renal disease were being dialysed with beneficial success, something which helped to influence the course of his future career. In 1957 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital with the intention of setting up a department of urology, his vision being also to establish a programme for the treatment of end stage renal failure by maintenance dialysis and renal transplantation. At that time dialysis was being used only for acute renal failure and renal transplantation was also in its infancy. He persuaded the hospital to purchase one of the first dialysis machines from America in 1958 and, with the help of newly appointed medical colleagues, the first maintenance dialysis service in the UK was started in 1961. Shortly after he was appointed at the Royal Free, Roy Calne joined as a registrar and expressed an interest in researching methods of controlling the rejection response. John Hopewell encouraged him to do so and arranged animal research facilities for him at Downe. Calne's success with 6-mercaptopurine was thought sufficiently convincing for the team to feel justified in embarking on a trial of human renal transplantation. Three transplants were performed between 1959 and 1960. The first two grafts from cadaveric donors failed to function, but the third, taken from a live donor (the recipient's father) functioned for seven weeks before the patient's death from miliary tuberculosis, thought to have emanated from the donor kidney. It was, nevertheless, the first British live donor, non-sibling kidney transplant using an immunosuppressant that had been shown to be effective in animal trials. At first the success of maintenance dialysis persuaded Hopewell to take the decision to delay the further use of renal transplantation until 1968, by which time Calne, working in America, had modified and improved the immunosuppression regime with the introduction of azathioprine. Meanwhile at home the team had been expanded by an accumulation of clinical and laboratory experts and the appointment of A N Fernando as an assisting consultant transplant surgeon. The subsequent success of the transplant programme at the Royal Free was helped by Hopewell's meticulous surgical technique and acute surgical judgement, attributes that led to him having an extensive surgical practice, attracting referrals from colleagues throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. In the wider world of medicine he banded together the centres in London interested in developing renal transplantation to form the London Transplant Group and was instrumental in joining them with the British Society for Immunology to form the British Transplantation Society in 1972, when he was elected as its first treasurer. He was president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Chelsea Clinical Society. Quietly formidable in committee, he was elected as chairman of the Hampstead District Health Authority, of the medical committee of the Royal Free, of the Camden District medical committee and the medical committee of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1969 to 1975 and was elected as an honorary member of the New York section of the American Urological Association. In 1959 John Hopewell had married Natalie Bogdan, a Russian émigré who had won a scholarship to come to Britain to study medicine at the Royal Free. They met when she was appointed as a houseman on the surgical firm that he shared with George Qvist. During a very happy marriage they subsequently had a daughter, Valentina Ellen, and a son, Richard Alexei Prince, the latter being tragically killed in a car crash in 2008. In 1974 the Royal Free had just moved from the Gray's Inn Road to its present site in Hampstead, when his life took a sad and dramatic turn as Natalie was diagnosed as having metastatic cancer. She died in the following year at the age of 41. He eventually retired from the Royal Free in 1986. Two years before that he had married again, his second wife being Rosemary Radley-Smith, the daughter of the consultant surgeon Eric Radley-Smith who John had worked for as a young house surgeon. Rosemary had also trained at the Royal Free and had become a distinguished paediatric cardiologist, working closely with Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital. On retirement he and Rosemary sailed to St Helena to research the history of the Hopewell family. He returned again in 1992 when the Foreign Office sent him to work there for a few months as the island's first urological surgeon. He was also can active member of the *Lives* committee at the Royal College of Surgeons for more than ten years. In 1995 the Hopewells moved to a Victorian vicarage in Langrish, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where they immersed themselves in the life of the community, taking on the editorship of the local paper, *The Langrish Squeaker*. He became a member of the Society of Ornamental Turners and procured a 19th century turning lathe, which he installed in his home workshop. Thereafter organisations of which he approved often found themselves the recipient of a Hopewell gavel of his own manufacture. He continued to write and in his 90th year produced a history of the treatment of renal failure in the UK by dialysis and transplantation. A convivial man, he always enjoyed a party and in his retirement was responsible for founding a retired consultants luncheon club at the Royal Free, an equally convivial summer reunion of urological consultants of the past (meeting under the soubriquet of the 'Urohasbeens') and also a popular annual past presidents dinner of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. John Hopewell died at home on 14 January 2015 at the age of 94. At a memorial service in the nearby village of East Meon some 250 friends and colleagues assembled to celebrate a man who had not only made a great contribution to the development of renal transplantation, but also had enriched the lives of those who had known him.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Collins, James Patrick (1932 - 2017)

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by Gerald O'Collins
Publication Date 2017-11-14
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details A leading urologist of his own generation and younger brother-in-law of the urologist James Peters (deceased), Jim O'Collins contributed to the remarkable progress in treating the urinary system made during his years in that specialised field of surgery. Born on December 20, 1932 James Patrick O'Collins grew up on his parents' property ("Rock Lodge") in the hills outside Frankston. Educated at Xavier College, he became a student at Newman College and in 1957 graduated MB BS at the University of Melbourne. After a year of residency at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, working as a casualty surgeon and urologist, he returned to St Vincent's Melbourne for a year as pathology registrar and then senior registrar in surgery. He topped the course for the first part of his FRACS (Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) before leaving for London and a course at St Thomas' Hospital. Having already completed the first part of his FRACS, in March 1961 he could take the second part of his FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons) and topped his group. Three years of enriching practice in England began with an appointment as senior registrar in orthopaedics at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Jim then moved north to work in Leeds as a urologist at St James' University Hospital (popularly known as "Jimmy's"). At the end of 1962 he was appointed senior registrar at the Bradford Royal Infirmary. A year later he left for the United States and became a visiting fellow in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Rochester (Minnesota), San Francisco and Los Angeles, at hospitals and centres which included the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic. Returning to Melbourne and taking up an appointment as a research fellow at the Children's Hospital, in 1964 Jim topped the second part of his FRACS (in Urology). From December 1965 to May 1966, he served in Vietnam, where he ran a hospital close to the Cambodian border. Attached to the South Vietnam army as a colonel, he was the only urologist in Vietnam. But his main concern was with other medical challenges - in particular, with the high incidence of tuberculosis and similar diseases. He succeeded in lowering the mortality rate at his hospital from 33 per cent to nine per cent. Back in Melbourne, Jim became assistant urologist at Prince Henry's Hospital. Persuaded by the growth of population in the south-east of the city, he started urological units at Dandenong District Hospital and Frankston Hospital. He also operated regularly down the Mornington Peninsula at Mornington and Rosebud, as well as at Bairnsdale, Maffra and Sale in Gippsland. During the 1977 federal elections, his prize patient at Frankston Hospital was the local member who was also the deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Phillip Lynch. Jim received anxious phone calls from the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, and kept assuring him: "Don't worry, Malcolm. I'm keeping him in hospital and making sure the press can't get to him." At the time Lynch was under fire over an alleged conflict of interests involving a family trust, but was subsequently cleared by an official inquiry that followed the elections. Head of surgery at Frankston Hospital for many years, from 1970 to 1990 Jim was the busiest urologist in Australia. Married in 1967 to Rosemary ("Posey") Calder, Jim treasured his work in Frankston and life with his wife and two children at the family home, and declined tempting appointments from elsewhere. An outstanding surgeon, Jim prized the anaesthetists, radiologists, theatre sisters and others who worked with him. But he grumbled about the bureaucrats, whom he believed often wasted funds without producing better health care for the wider public. An unfailingly courageous person, Jim died on March 2 after struggling with three forms of cancer over the last 15 years of his life. He was enduringly grateful to Cabrini Hospital for its expert and kindly support. His wife Posey cared for him with unfailing love. He is survived by her, his two children James and Victoria and their two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Parkhouse, Helen Fitzmaurice (1956 - 2010)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-11 2014-06-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373759373759
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Helen Parkhouse was a well-respected urological surgeon, a senior lecturer with honorary consultant status in the department of urology at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Born in Manchester into a non-medical family on 5 February 1956, Helen was the only daughter of Austin Fitzmaurice, a shopkeeper, and Margaret Fitzmaurice née Graham, a housewife. She had two younger brothers, Anthony and David. She was educated at St Hugh of Lincoln Primary School and then Loreto Convent School in Manchester. Here she had a good academic record and gained the school prize for physics and became deputy head girl. She then proceeded to Birmingham University for her medical education. When qualified she became a house physician at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, to W A Hudson, a consultant cardiologist, and followed this with her first surgical posts, as a house surgeon to J B Marczak, a general surgeon, and then to J W Jowett, a thoracic surgeon. With the intention of training in surgery, she spent six months as a senior house officer at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, gaining experience in the accident and emergency department under the supervision of R B Duthie and J Cockin, J Spivey, D J Fuller and J Kenright. She studied for the primary FRCS while she was a resident medical officer at the London Clinic. In order to gain more experience in the generality of surgery, Helen spent a year as a senior house officer at Kingston General Hospital with WJ (Bill) Bradfield, Paul Jarrett, Graham Farrington and Muriel Waterfall. She then gained valuable experience at registrar level in general surgery at the Cheltenham General Hospital working with Peter Boreham, John Fairgrieve and S Haynes. It was during this post that she was successful in the final FRCS examination, and met her future husband, then a houseman. Helen then entered a two-year rotating registrar post based at St Thomas' Hospital from 1982 to 1984. The first year was spent at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, where she worked in general surgery with Michael Williams, Robert Heddle and Richard Collins. She gained her first experience of pure urology at St Thomas' Hospital with Kenneth Shuttleworth, Wyndham Lloyd-Davies and Michael Bultitude. This confirmed Helen's desire to specialise in urology. To this ends, she wisely obtained a two-year research post at the Middlesex Hospital under the guidance of Richard Turner-Warwick and Euan Milroy, until April 1986. It was during this period of research that she investigated bladder dysfunction in Parkinson's disease and various aspects of urinary incontinence. Some of her early papers were written at this time, and numerous presentations were given to learned societies at home and abroad, particularly in the USA. She was the main author of some of these. She then had a spell as a senior house officer in paediatric surgery at Great Ormond Street for Sick Children, working with Philip Ransley and Patrick Duffy. In July 1986 she became a clinical lecturer at this institution, a post she held for over a year. She was then a senior registrar in paediatric urology for eight months. This broadened her urological experience, and made it possible for her to publish further papers and give lectures. In 1989 she was a Hunterian professor, the same year as her husband. Proceeding to a further senior registrar appointment at St Bartholomew's Hospital, she worked with Bill Hendry, Hugh Whitfield and Roger Kirby. She passed the relatively new diploma of FRCS (Urol) during this year, and the stage was set for her to apply for consultant posts. She first became a senior lecturer with consultant status at St Thomas' Hospital. The following year she was appointed to Mount Vernon Hospital for three years, having some sessions at Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge. In 2002 she held a consultant urologist post at Benenden Hospital, Cranbrook, Kent for a year. As a consultant she was joint author of *Color atlas of urology* (second edition, London, Wolfe, 1994) and, with Krishna Sethia, produced *Urology* (London, Mosby-Wolfe, 1995). After 18 years in the NHS, she then decided to practise exclusively in the private sector, specialising in female urology. She was initially based at the London Clinic and then had rooms in Harley Street and was a consultant urologist at King Edward VII's Hospital (Sister Agnes) in Beaumont Street, London, and the Lister Hospital. She also consulted at the McIndoe Surgical Centre, East Grinstead, Sussex, and the Nuffield Hospital, Haywards Heath. She also carried out medico-legal work, and was a practising member of the Academy of Experts from 1990. Helen was a member of numerous learned societies, including the British Association of Urological Surgeons, the International Society of Urology and the International Continence Society, and was an associate member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was a regular contributor at all of them. From 1985 to 1996 she read some 20 papers and had three poster presentations, both at home and abroad. She was a strong supporter of the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine and became a member of the council. Helen was a good athlete and excelled at tennis at club level. She enjoyed skiing, particularly at the yearly 'uro-ski' meetings of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. Other outside interests included the governorships of two schools, Cumnor House School, Danehill, and Burgess Hill School for Girls. She enjoyed opera and was a regular supporter of the Glyndebourne Festival. She had a passionate interest in helicopter flying and held a commercial pilot's licence. She married Nicholas Parkhouse, a plastic surgeon, in 1986. They had four children - Emma, Clare, James and Tom. Perhaps Helen would have described her role as a mother as being her finest achievement. Tragically, she died in her sleep at home in Chelwood Gate, near Haywards Heath, on 30 June 2010, aged just 54. This was almost certainly due to a sudden and complete heart block. Nick awakened in the morning to find his wife dead by his side.
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First Title value, for Searching Kehinde, Elijah Oladunni (1953 - 2018)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Emmanuel O Fashakin
Publication Date 2019-02-05 2019-03-06
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Elijah Oladunni Kehinde was a professor of surgery and a consultant urological surgeon at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. He was born in Ogbomoso, Nigeria, on 13 November 1953, the son of Solomon Kehinde-Bankole and Deborah Anke Kehinde-Bankole, both devout Baptists, after his mother had suffered stillbirths in all of her earlier pregnancies, then very common in Nigeria. Elijah started his primary education at the Baptist School, Oja Titun, Ogbomoso, but was sent to his uncle at Ilorin to complete his primary education at the First Baptist Primary School, because the Ogbomoso school terminated at the fourth grade. He had his secondary education at the Government Secondary School, Ilorin, where he distinguished himself, graduating with distinction in grade one. He was awarded a government scholarship to the Federal Government College, Sokoto, for his Higher School Certificate, where he also excelled. He was then admitted to Nigeria's premier university, the University of Ibadan, where he graduated from the medical school in 1979. He then proceeded to the compulsory one-year National Youth Service in Afuze, in what was then Bendel State. His professional career started as a house officer at University College Hospital, Ibadan. It was at this time that he developed his interest in urological surgery. After National Service, he was employed as a senior house officer at Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, but because there was no urologist at the hospital, he was allowed to do his clinical training in urology at his *alma mater*, University College Hospital, Ibadan. Elijah showed great determination and dedication, working about two hours’ drive away from home. He later got a scholarship to pursue a diploma in urology at the University of London in 1987, which he completed in the same year. He was a registrar at the Institute of Urology, London from 1987 to 1988. In May 1990, he became a fellow of the Medical College of Surgeons of Nigeria, specialising in urology. Later that year, in October, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In July 1998, he earned his doctor of medicine degree by thesis from the University of Leicester. Elijah's distinguished medical career took him from Nigeria to the UK, and later to Oman and Kuwait, and then to Kazakhstan. He was appointed as a full professor of surgery at the faculty of medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait, where he was a consultant urological surgeon. He served in this position for eight years, before leaving for Kazakhstan, where he was appointed as a professor of surgery and was asked to pioneer a world class medical school and cancer research centre. As a seasoned researcher, educator, urological surgeon and consultant, Elijah won many academic awards, scholarships and distinctions. In April 2004, he won an award for the best clinical sciences research at the Health Sciences Poster Conference, the first of many awards given to him by Kuwait University. In 2005, he was the recipient of an award for the best basic sciences research at the university and in 2006, he was given a prestigious award as a distinguished researcher. Elijah won dozens of research grants, including a grant (from 1991 to 1993) from the University of Leicester for research into prostate cancer. He also won a grant (from 1993 to 1994) from Bayer UK Limited, also for work on prostate cancer. He had over 85 publications in both local and international academic journals, and wrote chapters in several books. He was an expert reviewer, associate editor and editor of many leading journals in urology and medical sciences. He was a regular attendee and featured speaker at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (and similar conferences in Europe, Asia and Latin America). It was on his way to the American Urological Association conference in June 2015 that he revealed that the lymphocytic leukaemia, which had afflicted him for several years, was finally in remission as a result of the intensive chemotherapy he received in Kuwait. While excelling in teaching, research and in clinical skills, Elijah was said to thoroughly enjoy learning the language of his host country Kazakhstan. He practiced the Kazakh language with his students before every class. He could laugh at his own attempts to pronounce words correctly, and he learned from everyone he met. Elijah was also an active contributor to his church fellowship study groups, where he was well known for his courtesy to everyone. Elijah died in a mysterious fire in his flat in a high rise building in Astana on 14 July 2017, thought to originate from faulty electrical wiring. Dying in the same fire were his gynaecologist wife Olufunmilola, a medical student daughter, Mojoyinoluwa, and another daughter, Omolayo. He was 63. He was survived by two daughters, Oluwayemisi and Olaoluwakitan, from his first marriage. His funeral took place at Ori-Oke Baptist Church in Ogbomoso on 20 October 2017, the same church he had attended as a child and where he had been married. In the eulogy, the president of Nazarbayev University, Shigeo Katsu expressed how the university grieved the ‘…loss of this wonderful man, who was an international scholar, an inspiring teacher, a highly regarded researcher, a skilled surgeon, a generous mentor, a deeply spiritual man and a loyal friend.’ Elijah was described as a caring, honest and sympathetic man, whose sharp intelligence inspired the students and faculty. In spite of his extraordinary academic accomplishments, he was described as a modest man, who preferred to acknowledge the successes of his colleagues, students, collaborators and friends. The president said that although Elijah was at Nazarbayev University for only one year, he had a strong and unique impact on the university. Elijah shared the university’s dream of creating a world class medical research university in Astana. The Nazarbayev University community will remember him through the newly-established Nazarbayev University Award for Academic Integrity, which will be named in his honour. Elijah’s unique blend of intellectual brilliance, modesty and humour will also live on in his colleagues, students, collaborators and many friends all over the world.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Brian William (1947 - 2018)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Simon Paterson-Brown
Publication Date 2019-04-03
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Urological surgeon
Details Brian Ellis was a consultant surgeon at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. He was of the old school, where general and urological surgery could still be practised as a consultant, although with the separation of urology from general surgery he subsequently became a urologist. Brian was always ahead of his time, both in his clinical behaviour and academic ideas. He was not only an excellent general and urological surgeon, as could be attested by his patients and colleagues, but also an outstanding teacher of all his many surgical trainees now working around the UK and overseas. Furthermore, he was uniformly kind and fair to everyone in the workplace: supportive, encouraging and thoughtful. As a result, Brian was the kind of surgeon everyone wanted to model themselves on. In the academic arena, Brian cut his teeth in the challenging environment of the academic surgical unit at St Mary’s Hospital, London under the eagle eye of Hugh Dudley. His academic pursuits continued throughout his surgical career, in many cases a decade or more ahead of the current surgical practice. Among these were early computer programming, with the development of a computerised audit programme, which provided coded operation details and discharge summaries; and an understanding of the importance of human factors in surgical performance and personality assessment in surgical training and assessment. Perhaps Brian’s decision to study medicine and his long-term success in medical publishing came from his parents; his father, Frank Albert Ernest Ellis, was a newspaper executive and his mother, Beryl Christine Ellis née Holdsworth, a nurse. His early education was at St Bede’s Preparatory School in Eastbourne and then Harrow. Brian went to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in Paddington, London in 1965, qualifying in 1970. He did his surgical house jobs with the famous orthopaedic team of John Crawford Adams and George Bonney at St Mary’s, before going to Salisbury for his medical post. After returning to St Mary’s, Harrow Road for a senior house officer post in the accident and emergency department, he started his long and fruitful relationship with Hugh Dudley, initially as a senior house officer in 1974 and then as a research fellow from 1975 to 1976, when he looked into the physiology of sleep and its effect on performance, and the detection of central line sepsis in patients receiving total parenteral nutrition. After completing his research, Brian moved to Ashford Hospital in Middlesex in 1976, then back to St Mary’s in 1977 to work for Geoffrey Glazer and Harold Nixon (at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital), before going to the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City in 1978 to work for Gordon Cassie. He finally returned to St Mary’s as a senior registrar from 1979 to 1982, working again for Geoffrey Glazer, and on this occasion the two urologists, Michael Snell and Ross Witherow. He finished his senior registrar training on the vascular unit working for Averil Mansfield and John Wolfe. In 1983 Brian returned to Ashford Hospital in Middlesex as a consultant general and urological surgeon. Brian continued his long and fruitful relationship with Hugh Dudley throughout this time and thereafter, continuing the development of his computerised surgical audit system, subsequently developed commercially as ‘Micromed’ and used widely in surgical units throughout the UK. As his surgical registrar in Ashford in 1988, I remember visiting Biggin Hill with Brian to see how the RAF selected and assessed their pilots and discussing with him how some of the principles around human factors and non-technical skills used in aviation might be used in surgery to improve team performance and surgical outcomes – another example of how far ahead Brian’s thinking was in relation to standard surgical processes at the time. It took another 20 years before the importance of non-technical skills in surgical performance were recognised by the surgical community at large. Brian continued his other academic interests in Ashford, developing a diagnostic urological ultrasound training programme for urologists, resulting in him being appointed as a visiting professor at Middlesex University. His long list of publications attested to his lifelong academic interests, and his long-term relationship with Hugh Dudley culminated in him taking over the editorship of *Hamilton Bailey’s emergency surgery* (Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann) for the 12th edition in 1995 and then co-editing the 13th edition (London, Arnold) in 2000 with myself. In Ashford and St Peter’s Chertsey (they joined in 1999) Brian undertook a large number of clinical and management positions and was their clinical lead in human factors training, organising the winning of the *Hospital Doctor* team of the year award in 1998. Brian was an active member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, sitting on the council and several of their sub-committees. He was co-editor of the *Journal of Integrated Care* and in 2009 became clinical adviser to the Swinfen Trust – a medical charity which provides email help and support to doctors in developing countries. He became a member of the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2006. Brian retired from clinical practice in 2012, when he put much time and energy into designing and building, with his wife Loveday, their beautiful house and garden in Tangley, Andover. Brian first met Loveday Pusey when she was the night sister on the professorial surgical wards at St Mary’s Hospital and they married in 1976. They had two children, Rebecca and David, and two grandchildren. Brian undoubtedly enjoyed the good things in life – especially good wine and malt whisky. He was also a very keen and accomplished photographer, even buying a drone to improve his aerial photography of his own and neighbours’ houses! Brian died on 23 December 2018 at the age of 71. All who knew him, either socially or at work, were greatly saddened to hear of his death and will miss his huge capacity for enjoying all the good things in life, his big heart and his overwhelming desire to support, encourage and improve the lives of everyone with whom he came into contact. He was a giant of a man in every way, and as a surgeon and surgical trainer will always be remembered as a true leader, a great clinician and teacher, and a wonderful friend.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Joseph Arthur Russell (1913 - 1984)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Joseph Arthur Russell Johnson was born on 30 December 1913 and his early education was at King Edward VII School in Birmingham, where he was a foundation scholar. He entered Birmingham University for his medical studies, graduating in 1936 and subsequently serving as house officer in his teaching hospital. He spent some time in general practice before the war and was also resident surgical officer at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Early in 1939 he joined the Territorial Army and shortly after the outbreak of war was called up, initially serving in the Middle East with a Field Ambulance and eventually becoming a graded surgeon. While serving in the Middle East he met and married Mary and in 1944 they returned with their young daughter. Shortly after demobilisation he passed the FRCS and later worked at St George's Hospital. Within a few years he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Salop Infirmary, honorary consultant surgeon to the Montgomery County Infirmary, Newtown, and to the Robert Jones and Afnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Although a general surgeon he had a special interest in urology throughout his professional career. He retired in 1978 and towards the end of his life worked briefly in the new Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Apart from his professional work he was an enthusiastic countryman and gardener. He shared a great interest in fine art and furniture with his wife and was an authority on paintings. He died on 26 January 1984 aged 70 and is survived by his wife, two daughters, one of whom is in general practice, and a son.
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First Title value, for Searching Loughnane, Farquhar McGillivray (1885 - 1948)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376547376547
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born 5 February 1885, fourth child and third son of Denis Joseph Loughnane, collector of customs and excise, he was educated at Clapham College, King's College, London, and St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the entrance and Peacock scholarships and the Treasurer's gold medal. He was casualty officer and house surgeon at St Thomas's, and held resident posts at Camberwell Infirmary, at the Royal Sea-bathing Hospital, Margate, and at Salford and Leicester. During the war of 1914-18 he served at first with the Red Cross in France and then as captain, RAMC, at No 40 General Hospital in Mesopotamia, where he achieved success in the open treatment of fractures in desert conditions. Loughnane's interest lay in urological surgery. He introduced the radical operation in urogenital tuberculosis, and was a pioneer in the perurethral treatment of the enlarged prostate. He was particularly skilful in the employment of the cystoscope and intra-vesical instruments. After serving as assistant urologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, he became surgeon to All Saints' Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, and to St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children at Plaistow, serving also on the board of governors there 1920-48. He was consulting urologist to the London County Council at Bethnal Green Hospital from 1933, and consulting surgeon to Hampton Cottage Hospital. Loughnane was president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and a chairman in 1938-39 of the Marylebone division of the British Medical Association, serving also on the Representative Body for eleven years. He married in 1927 and his wife survived him, but without children. He died in St Mary's Hospital, Plaistow on 14 July 1948, aged 63, after a long illness. Loughnane was a member of the Irish Golfing Society, but his chief pleasure was the restoration of cottages and gardens in Kent and the company of fishermen on the Kentish coast. He had practised at 80 New Cavendish Street and later at 29 Devonshire Place. He had a deep sense of duty, and hid a warm, affectionate nature under a courteous, reserved manner. Publications: *A Handbook of renal surgery*. London, 1926. Perurethral treatment of enlarged prostate. *Practitioner*, 1933, 131, 71. Retention of urine. *Brit med J* 1935, 1, 1115.
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Thomas Lightbody (1903 - 1966)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378230378230
Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 16 June 1903, Chapman received his medical education at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1928. He was appointed a senior house surgeon at the Western Infirmary, and later was a demonstrator of anatomy at the University. Coming to London for postgraduate study he worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and became a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. On his return to Glasgow he was appointed to the surgical staff of the Victoria Infirmary, taking up urology as his special interest and building up a urological department there. In 1948 he was elected FRFPS and in 1949 proceeded to the degree of ChM. with high commendation. He was, in addition, an honorary lecturer in Urology at Glasgow University and urological surgeon to Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride and the Ballochmyle Hospital, Mauchline. A foundation fellow of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, he was one of the early protagonists in Britain of punch prostatectomy, following a period of instruction at the Mayo Clinic under Gresham Thompson. He, together with Wardill in Newcastle and Tom Lane in Dublin, was one of the founders of the 'Punch Club' of which he became the energetic and colourful secretary. At Hairmyres he developed a special unit for this method of treatment, ably assisted by a Polish refugee surgeon. Latterly he took up angling, which he much enjoyed whether his efforts were crowned with success or not. He lived a free and happy life, a happiness he communicated to his patients and friends. Anyone who had the privilege of getting to know Tom Chapman was stimulated and refreshed by meeting him. A kindly enthusiastic man, he had a wonderful sense of humour and a ready wit. A keen photographer he made use of his hobby in illustrating his teaching and producing animated films of urological procedures, in particular punch prostatectomy. He had himself at various times suffered at the hands of surgeons but, characteristically remained unperturbed by any implications these assaults might have. He married Dr Phyllis Hooper in 1937 who survived him with a son and daughter, both medical students. He died at his home Park Lodge, 21 Coldswood Road, Glasgow S3 on 18 July 1966 aged 63. Publications: *Urology in outline*, 1959. Perurethral methods in benign prostatic hypertrophy. *Lancet* 1943, 1, 14.
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First Title value, for Searching Feggetter, George Young (1905 - 2000)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380776380776
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 5 July 1905 in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Young Feggetter was the sixth son and the ninth child of William Feggetter, a shipbroker and coal exporter, and Amelia née Young, the daughter of a tobacconist. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and studied medicine at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne College of Medicine at Durham University, where he won the Charlton and Dickinson scholarships and the Gibson prize. After qualifying, he did junior posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, was RMO at the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, and became surgical registrar to the Royal Victoria Infirmary under Grey Turner, where he became particularly interested in urology. In 1933, he went to Berlin, where Von Lichtenberg was running a famous course in urology, based on the new technique of intravenous urography. He returned to become RSO at the All Saints Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases in London, where Canny Ryall and Terence Millin were innovators and pioneers in endoscopic surgery, notably transurethral resection of the prostate, on which he published two significant and critical papers. After a year at Kings Lynn, he returned to London to become first assistant at the British Postgraduate Medical School and also honorary registrar at All Saints. In 1938 he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the beginning of the war he worked for the Emergency Medical Service, joining the RAMC in 1942 as Major, becoming officer in charge of a surgical division and finally as Brigadier, consulting surgeon, in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he returned to Newcastle, where he resumed his urological practice and was a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1945. With the advent of the NHS in 1948, he was appointed surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead, Hartlepool Hospital, Sedgefield, Alnwick Infirmary, and the Ministry of Pensions at Dunton Hill. Despite his extensive expertise in urology, he retained, as did so many of his contemporaries, an interest in general surgery and indeed published (in 1959 and 1963) important papers on the results of vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. In 1940 he married Doris Weightman. They had one daughter and one son, Jeremy, who followed his father into urology. He died on 14 August 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Goldschmidt, Lionel Bernard (1892 - 1955)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1892 at Queenstown, Eastern Province, South Africa, he was educated at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, and at the King's College Hospital, London. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he enlisted in the London Rifle Volunteers and saw service in France as a combatant, with the rank of corporal. He then completed his medical training, was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service, and served as medical officer in a troopship in the Mediterranean. After the war he held house appointments and was Sambrooke surgical registrar at King's College Hospital under Sir John Thompson-Walker and John Everidge. He began to practise as a urologist in London, but returned to South Africa in 1922. He set up as a urologist in Cape Town, and in 1930 was appointed surgeon to the Somerset Hospital. For many years before his retirement in 1947 he was head of the department of urology at the University of Cape Town and the Groote Schuur Hospital. During the war of 1939-45 he was Honorary Colonel in the 3rd Field Ambulance and a part-time urological specialist in the South African Medical Corps. He was also a Vice-President of the Boy Scout Association. Goldschmidt was active in the Medical Association of South Africa, at first in the Cape Western branch of which he was President in 1945, and thereafter on the Federal Council. He was prominent in the South African Red Cross Society, especially in connection with the Children's Hospital at Rondebosch. At the end of his life he was the prime mover in the incorporation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of South Africa. He was an active traveller, huntsman and photographer of wild animals, a keen fisherman, and a good golfer. He was also interested in farming. He was at one time on the Board of Control for boxing, and served as President of the Cape Town Philatelic Society. He was a hospitable host at his home, Kingslyn, Hof Street, Cape Town. He married in England in 1918 Nora Rosalie Adlington of Worcester, who survived him with two daughters and two sons, Dr Basil Goldschmidt and Mr Reith Goldschmidt, who was a student at King's College Hospital medical school when his father died. Goldschmidt died on 18 August 1955 aged 63, and a memorial service was held in Cape Town Cathedral.
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Lynn Euryl (1939 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07 2017-06-30
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Lynn Edwards was born in Gorseinon on 12 April 1939, the son of a lecturer in the Smith Reardon Nautical College. He was educated at Cardiff High School for Boys from which he won a state scholarship and an open exhibition to Downing College Cambridge. There he rowed and played rugby football, and won the Philliter Entrance Scholarship in pathology to University College Hospital Medical School. At UCH while he continued to play the piano and rugby football and to row, he managed to find time to qualify with a distinction in surgery, win prizes in medicine, obstetrics and surgery, gain the Aicheson Exhibition, and to woo Elinor, the nurse who became his wife. After junior posts at UCH and its associated hospitals, where he fell under the spell of his fellow-Welshman D R Davies, he passed the FRCS and was appointed a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital to Alec Badenoch and John Blandy. This led to the coveted post of senior registrar, which carried him on rotation through all the hospitals of the Institute of Urology, and culminated in the appointment as lecturer and research fellow. During these years he carried out fruitful and original research into the mechanisms of continence which gained him a Hunterian professorship and his Cambridge MChir. His first consultant post was at the Middlesex Hospital in 1975. He moved on to the Westminster Hospital in 1977 where he had to overcome many administrative obstacles before he was able to build up a first-rate specialised urological department. His career was not without pitfalls: in 1969 Lynn diagnosed his own seminoma. The standard treatment of the day cured him but twenty years later, not coincidentally, he developed a second primary carcinoma of the bowel which led to his death. A man of exceptional charm, Lynn was quietly passionate about many things: his native language, music, his Christian faith, rowing, rugby, freemasonry and good fellowship. Nothing gave him so much pleasure as to take part in the Royal National Eisteddfod, in whose Gorsedd he was not only an active member but an honorary bard of the White Order. A popular teacher, he was president of the boat club and rugby football club of the medical school. In urology he was a shrewd and active innovator. He was only 51 when he died, leaving a wife, three sons and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Urquhart-Hay, Donald (1929 - 2011)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-25 2017-01-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Donald Urquhart-Hay was a well-known New Zealand urologist who enjoyed an enviable worldwide reputation. He had an excellent postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, mainly in London and organised by the Institute of Urology, and pioneered renal transplantation in Wellington, New Zealand. When serving in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer as a commander, one of his many outside commitments was as an aide-de-camp to Sir (later Lord) Arthur Porritt when he was governor-general of New Zealand from 1967. Donald was born in Christchurch on 24 May 1929, the son of Walter Hay, a manager in the local Bank of New Zealand. He was named after Donald Urquhart, a captain who served with the New Zealand Shipping Company. His mother was Beryl Eunice née Robertson, the daughter of a draper. The family lived in Eltham in the province of Taranaki, and Donald was educated at Stratford High School, after primary schooling in Eltham. In addition to a good academic record, he developed a natural aptitude for woodwork and painting, and a lifetime interest in clocks. Graduating from University in 1954, he spent two years of house appointments in Auckland. Being drawn to surgery, he decided to travel to the UK and first spent 18 months training in orthopaedics, before taking on a busy post in general surgery with some urology at Southend General Hospital. Sir Eric Riches encouraged Donald to think seriously about the developing specialty of urology for his future career in surgery. Fortuitously, the Institute of Urology was developing a three-year training programme, based first at St Paul's Hospital, Endell Street, and rotating through the Royal Marsden and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Working with Sir David Innes Williams, John Blandy and Richard Turner-Warwick, he had a good grounding for any surgeon wishing to specialise in urology. They emphasised to him the need for good basic research, as well as the necessity of well-organised training programmes. This was at the time when urology was developing as a specialty and separating from general surgery. Donald was influenced by many other urologists in the UK, including J D Ferguson, Howard Hanley and David Wallace. Donald then went to work with James Dempster, who nurtured his interest in renal transplantation. He met Geoffrey Chisholm, another New Zealand-born surgeon, who was at first senior registrar to Ralph Shackman at Hammersmith Hospital and the Postgraduate Medical School, and was then appointed to the consultant staff. Geoffrey was doing work in the field of organ preservation and transplantation. Urquhart-Hay's early research was on greyhounds, ideal for his research as they were 'obedient, thin and never barked!' All this work was made possible at the Hammersmith because of the existing renal dialysis programme set up by Eddie Kulatilake. Returning to New Zealand in 1966, Urquhart-Hay obtained a post as an admitting and outpatient medical officer at Wellington Hospital and, from 1967 to 1994, was visiting urologist to the hospital. He continued his research work on renal transplantation at Wallaceville Research Unit and performed the first human transplant in New Zealand at Wellington Hospital on 2 April 1969 (1). During this period, from 1966 to 1971, he also acted as medical officer to the clinic for sexually transmitted diseases. Following his baptism into urology, he pursued this specialty relentlessly as it split from its general surgical roots, and worked hard for its advancement in New Zealand. He was an ardent supporter of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, for whom he was an examiner over many years. He was unwavering in his support of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, and designed and commissioned the Society's crest and its motto - *Juncta ad aquam* (joined across the water). Publications were numerous and included 'Comparison of epidural and hypotensive anaesthesia in open prostatectomy' (*N Z Med J*. 1969 May;69[444]:281-7), 'Voluntary sterilisation in the male'. (*N Z Med J*. 1970 Apr;71[455]:230-2) and papers on his experiences of renal transplantation. He had a great interest in medical and military history, and produced an entertaining and very readable book *Beyond the figleaf: essays on urology, sex and medical miscellania* (Wellington, Steele Roberts, 22009). This fluently written narrative covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from Florence Nightingale, the history of sex, to alcohol and the medical profession, as well as details of various urological societies. Naturally his superb work was recognised further afield, and in 1992 he became chief of urology and renal transplantation for the Ministry of Defence, Saudi Arabia. His fame spread in the Middle East and he became an adviser in urology and renal transplantation to the Department of Health in Dubai from 1993 to 1995, and during this latter period was also visiting professor in urology to the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Outside his medical duties he enjoyed sailing and was a member of the Bentley Owners Club of England and of New Zealand. He was first a district surgeon to the Order of St John and, from 1981, was appointed chief commissioner, a role he continued for seven years. As a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society of England, he possessed a collection of some 200 clocks, which he wound lovingly each week. His most prized possession, a mantle clock given by Lord Nelson to his mistress, Emma Hamilton, was kept 15 minutes fast, in honour of Nelson's commitment to punctuality! He also had a fine collection of old surgical instruments. Donald retired from Wellington Hospital in 1994, to continue in several roles. He acted in an advisory capacity for the Accident Compensation Corporation, and from 1997 to 2002 was full time urologist to Palmerston North Hospital. In 2007 he served as a member of the Capital and District Health Board of Wellington. He also engaged in medico-legal work. After many years of living in Wellington, he moved with his wife to Ta Horo, near the Otaki River. Here they built an English style garden and Donald built a dry stone wall using the large supply of stones from the nearby river. Donald died on 13 August 2011 at Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington, at the age of 82. He was survived by his wife Pamela (née Bowden-Hennin), whom he had met while studying for the primary FRCS in 1957, their two sons (Simon and Timothy), daughter (Charlotte) and seven grandchildren. [(1) 1968 deleted, 2 April 1969 added. Confirmed by Renal History page, Capital and Coast District Health Board of Wellington.]
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First Title value, for Searching Kilpatrick, Francis Rankin (1908 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-02-01
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Francis Rankin Kilpatrick, known as ‘Kilp’, was a urological surgeon in London. He was born in Windsorton near Kimberley in Cape Province, South Africa, on 18 September 1908. His father had been a draper’s assistant who emigrated from Northern Ireland to South Africa in 1897, where he flourished, ending up as the owner of his store. He returned only once to Ireland, to bring back his wife, Annie Rankin. He died in 1923, leaving Annie to bring up Kilp (then only 14) and three other children. Kilp and his brother John went to England before the war to study medicine at Guy’s Hospital. Kilp qualified in 1933, and held house jobs and junior surgical posts. He left Guy’s to be RMO at Putney Hospital for a few years, where his reputation grew, and he was invited back to Guy’s. But for the war he would have been appointed to the staff (according to his backer, Nils Eckhoff). Instead he was appointed surgeon to the Emergency Bed Service, working at Guy’s and the Wildernesse (where he was surgeon superintendent). At the outbreak of war Hedley Atkins was responsible for the surgical organisation: Kilp and Sam Wass were the surgical registrars who took turns to deal with the emergency surgery throughout the Blitz, the anaesthetics being provided by another South African, Abe Shein. Those days have been vividly described: the casualties were operated on in an improvised four-table operating theatre in a cellar. The operations went on day and night, even though the hospital itself was heavily damaged. On five occasions the daily total of admissions was more than 100. This intense activity was to be repeated later in the war during the V1 and V2 attacks of 1944 and 1945. After the war Kilp was appointed consultant surgeon to Guy’s in 1946 and to St Peter’s Hospital in 1948. At St Peter’s Kilp was worshipped by the younger RSOs for his meticulous technique of retropubic prostatectomy, which in his hands was notably gentle and bloodless, and for the endless pains he took in teaching. In a day when some surgeons were famous for their arrogance, few people were so courteous and friendly to people of every walk of life. His juniors like his patients regarded him as their friend. He married Eileadh Morton, a radiographer, in 1939. They had three children – Stewart, Bruce and Fiona. He retired to Fittleworth, where he developed a keen interest in bird-watching and photography. He died on 19 August 2005, aged 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Burnside, Kennedy Byron (1913 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27 2020-01-16
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Kennedy Burnside was born in Melbourne on 9 December 1913. He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School before going to the University of Melbourne to read medicine. He graduated in 1937 and was successively resident and registrar at the Alfred Hospital in 1938 and 1939. During the second world war he commanded the 2nd Australian Mobile Bacteriology Laboratory from 1941. He was serving in Malaya at the fall of Singapore in 1942, after which he was imprisoned by the Japanese at a small prisoner-of-war camp. There he was senior medical officer looking after some 300 men, with a camp hospital servicing other groups in the district. There were a few British doctors, and later some Dutch, all of whom he dealt with scrupulously and impartially, showing invariable courtesy and good humour. He disliked humbug, however, and could be outspoken. During his time as a prisoner-of-war in Singapore and at Changi he not only ran his laboratory but wrote a book on the management and prevention of malaria. He kept a daily diary, which survives to this day and worked out the nutritional content of the rations and confronted the Japanese with his figures. He studied anatomy and mathematics and became adequately proficient in Japanese, Malay and French. After the war he took his MRCS and FRCS in England in 1947 and on returning to Australia in 1948 was appointed honorary surgeon to out-patients at the Alfred Hospital, and became FRACS the same year. He became interested in urology and taught himself endoscopic procedures, which he pursued with characteristic enthusiasm until he was recognised as an outstanding expert on endoscopic resection. At the request of the hospital he formed a separate urological unit in 1956. He retired from the honorary staff in 1973, and was appointed honorary consultant urologist. In 1973 and 1974 he was President of the Urolological Society of Australia. He was an outstanding teacher and presented numerous papers, some of a controversial nature, but always the product of his own experience rather than based on precepts from the literature. He never used notes. He had catholic interests outside his specialty, and his conversation on any topic was always illuminating and his views usually proved correct. His occupations apart from surgery included sound reproduction, photography, cabinet-making and water-skiing. He died on 12 June 1983, aged 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Wade, Sir Henry (1877 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Swinney, John (1912 - 1988)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Swinney was born in Durham on 12 June 1912, the son of Thomas Swinney, a business man, and Hannah, née Surtees. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Durham University where he graduated MB, BS in 1935, having won the Stephen Scott Scholarship, the Sewell Prize and the Dickenson Scholarship. He was house surgeon and house physician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle (1935-36) and, after a few months in general practice, he became surgical registrar from late 1936 to 1939. He worked for George Grey Turner, F C Pybus and Norman Hodgson. He proceeded MD in 1937. He enlisted in the RAMC in 1939 and served in France until 1940, the year he became FRCS. He served later in Eritrea, the Western Desert, Sicily and Italy, where he was awarded the Military Cross. He also had the unusual distinction of graduating MS (Hons) on active service overseas. He married Miss Thompson in 1943. He was demobilised in 1945 with the rank of Major and he was appointed assistant surgeon at Newcastle General (Municipal) Hospital. In 1946 he went to the Mayo Clinic with a Rockefeller Fellowship where he spent a year with Gershom Thompson, learning the technique of per-urethral prostatectomhy that Thompson had devised with the 'cold punch'. There followed a year in the University of Colorado before he returned to Newcastle in 1949 to take over the recently established department of prostatic surgery at the General Hospital. Swinney rapidly developed that department to cover the whole specialty of urology. He was a first class surgeon and a man of drive and vision and the demands made by practitioners resulted in the department moving, first to a larger unit at Shotley Bridge General Hospital, and later to the new Freeman Hospital, where he and his colleague, Keith Yeates, had a unit of ninety beds. John Swinney made many original contributions to urological surgical practice. He developed a technique of urethroplasty, he introduced intravesical chemotherapy for some varieties of bladder tumours and he designed endoscopic instruments. He pioneered renal transplantation in the north of England and he devised a method of preserving donor kidneys by machine perfusion. He invited financial support for this research and the response was such that the Northern Counties Kidney Research Fund was established to manage the very large contributions. He was President of the North of England Surgical Society, the Newcastle and Northern Counties Medical Society, the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and the European Dialysis and Transplantation Association. The University of Newcastle created a personal chair for him in 1969 and he was awarded the St Peter's Medal by the British Association of Urological Surgeons in the same year. He retired in 1974 and he joined his elder son who farmed in Western Australia. He was soon back in urological practice, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and building up a large practice. He retired from that in 1979 and settled in Banff, Scotland. His publications included *Handbook of operative urological surgery*, and a chapter "Transplant rejection" in *Scientific foundations of urology* and papers on other urological topics. He was an active member of the "Punch Club" which met annually at the hospitals of the few elected members. Professor Swinney was a good natured, kindly man, loyal and generous to his juniors and admired by his colleagues. He died on 29 January 1988 aged 75 and is survived by his wife, and their two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Jenkins, John Dudley (1931 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-21 2014-12-23
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Dudley Jenkins was a consultant urologist in Southampton. A proud Welshman, he was born in Swansea on 7 August 1931. His father, John Gerwyn Jenkins, was the director of wage negotiations for British Steel in South Wales. He was also 'Roy Allan' in the thirties BBC programme 'Roy Allan and his Premier Dance Band', playing his trombone and French horn. His mother, Dorothy Mary Jones, was a talented pianist, an enthusiastic naturalist and an avant-garde cook. John was educated at King Henry VIII Grammar School, Abergavenny, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he sang in the college and university choirs, and played rugby for the university second XV and for Caius. His clinical training was at University College Hospital, where he continued to play rugby and starred in Christmas shows. He achieved 'international fame' as Dirk Bogarde's double on the rugby field in the film *A doctor in the house*. After junior jobs at UCH, he took a three-year commission in the Royal Navy, where he qualified as a naval diver and did research in the deep pressure diving school at HMS Haslar. He served at sea during the 'cod war'. After further posts in Cardiff and Addenbrooke's, he spent a year doing research under William Stahl in Bellevue Hospital, New York. On his return, he became senior registrar at the Royal Infirmary Leeds under Leslie Pyrah, Philip Clark and R D Williams. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology in Southampton in 1969. At first he shared the emergency general surgical rota with one other general surgeon. He was later joined by a former trainee, Christopher Smart, and together they established a specialised department of urology. He was a member of the councils of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He carried out research, in collaboration with the neurosurgical department, into bladder function in spinal disease. John was an immensely sociable man with a wide range of knowledge, a love of music and the literature of the first world war, which he shared with his colleague John Garfield. Together they went on many walking holidays of the war cemeteries on which they lectured together, and which resulted in Garfield's monograph *The fallen* (London, Leo Cooper, 1990). He married Siân Reynolds, a dental surgeon, in 1963. They bought a house in Bursledon with a windmill in the garden, which served as a shed for many years. They handed it over to Hampshire County Council, which restored it as the only working windmill in Hampshire. They often entertained at the Mill House. They had four children, of whom the eldest became a general practitioner in Cardiff. In 1989 they bought a house in France and began restoring it, but sadly increasing illness prevented this from becoming a retirement home. They moved to Cardiff in 1997. He died at home on 4 August 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001806
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First Title value, for Searching Ramage, John Steven (1900 - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Stephen Ramage, the son of William Ramage, a coal master's traveller, and of Isobel Leitch Ramage (née Forster), was born at Greenock, Scotland, on 22 September 1900. He was educated at Greenock High School and Glasgow University, and also spent one year at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1922. After resident appointments at Bury Infirmary 1922-1924, he was resident surgical officer at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and was appointed as assistant surgeon there in 1925 and consultant surgeon in 1935, an appointment which he held until his retirement in 1965. He also worked at Haywood and Burslem Hospitals. "JSR", or Johnny, as he was affectionately known, was an individualist and a very sound all round general surgeon, though developing a growing interest in urology later. He showed great determination as an operator but was a man of sound judgement who instinctively knew when not to operate. He had a wide knowledge of the surgical literature and a phenomenal memory for cases and faces which gave him the reputation of a walking *Index Medicus*. He was an enthusiastic teacher, thereby epitomising the great traditions in which he had been reared. Never an innovator, he was always ready to practise recently published advances. He was an active member of the BMA and was Chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent Branch at the inception of the NHS and Chairman of the North Staffordshire Division in 1963. A former President of both the Midland Surgical Society, the Midland Urological Club and the North Staffordshire Medical Society, he was a founder member of the North Staffordshire Medical Institute, it's first Chairman and later a Vice-President. He had onetime examined in surgery for Birmingham University. Very appropriately he was elected FRCS ad eundem in 1963 and also received the honorary MA of Keele University in 1965. Johnny lived a busy social life and was captain and president of Trentham Golf Club, and president of the local Caledonian Society. He was a senior alderman and past mayor of the Ancient Corporation of Hanley. He had a fantastic knowledge of sport and would commonly confound less well informed mortals on soccer, golf and the sport of kings. When he ceased operative work in 1965 there was greater time and opportunity for all these activities. He had married Dr Mary Muriel Moller, a consultant anaesthetist, in 1930, and they had one son and four daughters of whom three were respectively physiotherapist, nurse and radiographer. When he died on 7 March 1986 he was survived by his wife and five children, and was described by one of his retired surgical colleagues as "the doyen of surgery in North Staffordshire - the area owes more to him than any other surgeon who has ever worked here."
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First Title value, for Searching Raper, Frederick Peter (1913 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1913 at Grassington, Yorkshire, he was the elder son of Professor H S Raper DSc, FRS, Professor of Physiology in Leeds from 1917 to 1923 and in Manchester from 1923 to 1946, when he became Dean of the Faculty until his death in 1951. Raper was educated at Giggleswick School and the medical school of Leeds, which he entered in 1931. After qualification he held appointments as house surgeon and receiving room officer culminating in his appointment in 1941, after being admitted a Fellow, as resident surgical officer in the General Infirmary, holding this position until 1944. He then entered the RAMC serving until 1947 as a surgical specialist in India. Returning to Leeds in 1947 he was appointed surgical tutor to the University and in 1950 was awarded a travelling scholarship by the United Leeds Hospitals, tenable at Ann Arbor, Michigan for further training in urological surgery. Returning to Leeds in 1951 to the post of senior registrar in the United Hospitals and St James's Hospital, in 1952 he was appointed consultant urological surgeon. In April 1964 he became senior consultant and senior clinical lecturer on the retirement of Professor L N Pyrah. He held many appointments in addition to those in the hospital and university. A member of the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons from 1959 to 1962 and secretary of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1956 to 1957, becoming Vice-President from 1957 to 1961, he was secretary of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society from 1957 to 1961. He was also President of the Leeds Medical Sciences Club from 1964 to 1965. As a surgeon Raper was an expert craftsman, gentle and dexterous, and was at the same time an able diagnostician. Although he had had a very thorough grounding in general surgery, when it was decided in 1948 to form a department of urology in Leeds, he expressed a desire to become attached to it and to abandon general surgery. His year's experience at Ann Arbor convinced him of the correctness of his decision. Latterly he had become deeply involved with F M Parsons in the problems of renal transplantation, particularly the feasibility of using cadaver kidneys. As a member of the planning committee of the new teaching hospital in Leeds, he had devoted many hours to the consideration of the problem associated with the integration of a new medical school adjacent to both hospital and university. He was a popular teacher with both under and postgraduate students: possessing considerable powers of exposition aided by a dry sense of humour. Outside his profession he had many interests. A painter in water colours from early days, and a lover of music, he was an enthusiastic walker in the Yorkshire Dales from his cottage at Malham. Raper died suddenly in the General Infirmary on 31 January 1966 at the early age of 52, leaving a widow and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, David Mitchell (1913 - 1992)

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First Title value, for Searching Logie, Norman John (1904 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Norman Logie was born in Glasgow on 1 January 1904, the son of a general practitioner who was a Glasgow Honours graduate; his mother had been a nurse at Belvidere Fever Hospital, Glasgow. He was educated at Glasgow High School, but his University was Aberdeen, the family having moved north to Rothes, and he graduated there in 1927, winning the Keith Gold Medal in clinical surgery, and then became house surgeon at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. In 1928 he came to London and held house appointments at the West London Hospital and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. After two years in London he returned to Aberdeen as assistant in anatomy and clinical tutor in surgery, which brought him under the influence of Sir John Marnoch and his successor Professor James Learmonth, and in 1933 he obtained the English Fellowship. Logie was an officer in the medical unit of the University OTC and was therefore called up in 1939 and served in Tobruk with the 15th Scottish General Hospital, fortunately being ordered back to Cairo shortly before Tobruk was captured. In 1942, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he was sent back to Britain to instruct junior officers in the management of battle casualties, and shortly after D-day he landed in Normandy with the 77th General Hospital with which he remained till the end of the war and for his good work was mentioned in dispatches. It was after the war that he began to take a special interest in urology. He had always been a general surgeon, with experience during the war of wound treatment in the early days of penicillin, and of the treatment of burns; but gastroenterology, particularly partial gastrectomy for duodenal ulcer took a prominent place in his practice and his published results compared very favourably with the more recently introduced vagotomy and drainage procedures. But in time his work became more and more urological, and it was therefore appropriate that, when in 1967 a urological department was established at the Royal Infirmary, he should be the first consultant in charge. This outline of his career, though indicating his ability and his wide experience, would be incomplete without some reference to Norman Logie the man, whose devotion to his duties as a surgeon and teacher were so highly valued and greatly appreciated by patients, colleagues, students and trainees. He was involved in the affairs of many professional bodies, including committees of his hospital group, of the University and also of the City of Aberdeen, and he was the founder and Captain of the North-East Scotland Seniors Golfing Association. He also made many worthwhile contributions to surgical literature. He had a very happy home life with his devoted wife, a son who graduated in medicine and had commenced his surgical training, to his father's great satisfaction, and a daughter, who all survived him. He died, after long suffering from intestinal cancer, on 15 March 1972.
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First Title value, for Searching Dix, Victor Wilkinson (1899 - 1992)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Victor Wilkinson Dix was born in Dorset on 24 May 1899 and educated privately. He served in the Royal Flying Corps from 1917 to 1919, then went up to Cambridge to study medicine there and at the London Hospital. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the London in 1930 and eventually became Professor of surgery there from 1947 until he retired in 1964. During the second world war he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in north Africa and north east Asia from 1941 to 1947. Early in his career Victor Dix developed an interest in urology. After seeing Von Lichtenberg use Uroselectan for urography in Berlin he used the method himself in Britain and gained an international reputation for the surgery of hydronephrosis. While serving in north Africa during the war he saw large numbers of dehydrated young troops with ureteric calculi; he developed a method to remove these that was unrivalled for accuracy, speed and simplicity. Dix was an elegant and rapid operator though not easy to assist, his headlamp making it difficult for anyone else to see into the depths of a wound. In urethral instrumentation his mountaineer's hands were surprisingly delicate and dexterous: no stricture was too difficult for him to negotiate, no bladder calculus could resist his classical lithotrite. The method that he developed with Walter Shanks for treating bladder cancer with radon seeds was a major advance over the cruel techniques then widely used. For one who kept such meticulous notes it is a pity that he wrote so little, for to his wide experience he added total recall. Much of his effort went into editing the multi-volume *Encyclopaedia of Urology* from 1958 to 1965. Although his main interest was urology, he persuaded the board of governors of the London Hospital to build a surgical research laboratory and used this to entice the brilliant young Scottish investigators W T Irvine and H D Ritchie to the hospital. They changed the whole style of surgical teaching and, among other research projects, instigated fundamental studies into the physiology of peptic ulceration that eventually led to the H2 antagonists, which virtually eliminated the need for surgery. With his colleague Gerald Tresidder, Dix established a purpose-built outpatient department with its own x-ray suite, and there, long before day case surgery became a catchphrase, large numbers of procedures were performed under local or general anaesthesia. Twice each month in the combined cystoscopy follow through clinic some 50 check cystoscopies for cancer would be performed by his team of assistants at four tables between 1.30 and 4 pm. An expert photographer, mountaineer and tennis player, Victor was a passionate opera goer: Puccini would move him to tears. He was a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, becoming its President in 1962, and served on the Court of Examiners of the College. He died on 29 June 1992 aged 93, and was survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
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First Title value, for Searching Gow, James Gordon (1917 - 2001)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Gordon Gow was a consultant surgeon to Sefton General Hospital, specialising in urological surgery. Born on 1 January 1917 in Liverpool, Jim Gow's father, John, was a businessman, and his mother, Elizabeth McLellan née Roy, was the daughter of a minister of religion. He was educated at Liverpool College and Liverpool University, where he was influenced by Sir Robert Kelly, Lord Cohen and Sir Reginald Watson-Jones. After junior posts in the Southern Hospital Liverpool, he served throughout the war in the RAMC, reaching the rank of Major. After the war he returned to Liverpool, passed the FRCS and was appointed consultant surgeon to Sefton General Hospital and consultant urologist to Wrightington Hospital. He now took up the treatment of genito-urinary tuberculosis, becoming internationally known for his advocacy of ever more conservative treatment, which he demonstrated to be feasible, thanks to the combination chemotherapy based on streptomycin. He was one of the first to exploit the Boari technique for re-implantation of the bladder when obstruction followed otherwise successful chemotherapy. This work brought him an Hunterian Professorship in 1971. Among his many hobbies, Jim was a keen photographer, and wished to take photographs of the growing number of bladder tumours which were referred to him. The results were disappointing. He was put in touch with Harold Hopkins, then at Imperial College. Hopkins examined the latest cystoscopes, commented that their design had hardly changed since the time of Galileo, and set about redesigning the entire optical system. Using this new cystoscope, Gow was able to make some excellent colour transparencies, which he lent to Hopkins, who showed them at a conference on medical photography in Düsseldorf. There, Karl Storz at once saw the possibilities of the new system, to which he added his cold-light flexible lighting bundle. From that meeting can be dated the whole modern generation of endoscopes. This invention transformed urology, and was soon taken up by other branches of surgery, as the laparoscopic surgery of today. In later years, with the decline in tuberculosis, Jim wrote less on that topic, though his chapters in textbooks were still the gold standard. His new interest led to an atlas of urology, illustrated with his own endoscopic photographs taken with the Hopkins system. He was a popular, affable and active member of British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine, a keen golfer, and a happy family man. His important contributions were recognised by his peers in BAUS, some thought rather tardily, by the honour of the St Peter's medal in 1999. In 1967 he married Dorcas Jean Wallace, by whom he had twins, a boy, Gordon, and a girl, Bridget, and a younger daughter, Ingrid. Ironically, he developed a carcinoma of the bladder, which brought him considerable pain, despite radiotherapy. He died on 28 April 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Samuel Henry Creighton (1912 - 2004)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-14
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Henry Clarke was a consultant urological surgeon in Brighton and mid Sussex until his retirement in December 1976. He was born in Derby on 1 January 1912, the son of Samuel Creighton Clarke, a general practitioner in Derby and the son of a gentleman farmer from Newtownbutler, Ireland, and Florence Margaret Caroline née Montgomery, a descendent of the Montgomery who accidentally killed Henry II of France in a jousting match in 1559. Clarke was educated at Monkton Combe junior and senior schools, and then went on to St Bartholomew’s medical school, where he was a medical clerk to Lord Horder and a surgical dresser to Sir James Paterson Ross. From 1937 to 1938 he was a casualty officer, house surgeon and senior resident at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He enlisted in July 1939, joining the 4th Field Hospital, as part of the British Expeditionary Force. In 1940, at Dunkirk, he organised the evacuation of men on to the boats, under aerial attack. He left Dunkirk on one of the last boats out. In 1942 he was sent out to North Africa, and was present at the Battle of El Alamein. At the end of the North African campaign, as part of the 8th Army, he took part in the invasion of Italy. He ended the war as a Major in the RAMC. After the war, he returned to Bart’s, where he was much inspired by A W Badenoch. After appointments at Bart’s, as a chief assistant (senior registrar) and at St Peter’s Hospital for Stone (as a senior registrar), he became a consultant in general surgery at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 1950. In 1956 he was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon to the Brighton and Lewes, and mid Sussex Hospital groups. He was a member of the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons from 1961 to 1964, and a former Chairman of the Brighton branch of the BMA. He married Elizabeth Bradney Pershouse in 1947 and they had a daughter, Caroline Julia Creighton. There are three grandchildren – Rachel, Brittany and Alexander. He was interested in rugby, tennis and golf, and collected liqueurs and whiskies. He retired to St Mary Bourne, and became an active member of his parish. He died from heart failure on 15 September 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Ronald Ogier (1886 - 1971)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ronald Ogier Ward was born on 6 March 1886, the son of a general practitioner, Dr Allan Ogier Ward, and was educated at Magdalen College School, Queen's College, Oxford, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1912 and took his Oxford degree in 1913. He was most distinguished, both as a soldier and as a surgeon. In the Balkan war of 1912-13 he served with the British Red Cross, but in the first world war he was a combatant soldier. He was a Major in the Honourable Artillery Company, and commanded C Battery of the 293rd Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. It was this battery which saved a break through the British line in the retreat of March 1918. For his outstanding service in this war he was awarded the DSO and MC. Returning to London he was appointed chief assistant to George Gask, first Professor of Surgery to the Medical College of St Bartholomew's, but soon decided to specialise in urology. He was appointed to the staff of St Peter's Hospital for Stone and urologist to the Miller and Royal Masonic Hospitals. Between the wars he built up a large and successful practice and became one of the leaders in urological surgery. He was elected President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1935. On the outbreak of war in 1939, he again volunteered for service with the army and was in charge of a surgical division with the British Expeditionary Force in France. For his distinguished service then, and at the time of the evacuation in 1940, he was awarded the OBE. He later served in Egypt and became consulting surgeon to the Army in East Africa. He returned to England in 1944, and resumed civilian practice. He was the prime mover in the foundation of the British Association of Urological Surgeons of which he was the first President. He was Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the *British journal of urology* when it was reconstituted after the war. He was a careful and competent surgeon who achieved very good results. He was meticulous in his attention to detail and in his care of the patient. He was always eager to improve on the old. He had an enquiring and inventive mind and did much original work not only in the development of urology, but also in the introduction and improvement of the instruments and paraphernalia of surgery. He wrote extensively and contributed the section in urology to Modern operative surgery edited by Grey Turner. By these writings and his teaching, he did much to consolidate urology as a specialty. He had a serious illness in 1950, but survived this and returned to practice for some years. On retirement he became greatly interested in painting and spent many happy hours indulging in this pastime at his delightful cottage near Seaford. For many years he remained an interesting and intellectual companion, always interested in old friends and he retained a pleasant dry humour. He died after a long illness on 4 April 1971, and was survived by his wife and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyrah, Leslie Norman (1899 - 1995)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-11 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leslie Norman Pyrah was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine at Leeds University, interrupting his course to take an honours degree in physiology. On qualification he did a wide variety of resident training posts during the next five years, notably with Berkeley Moynihan at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he became surgical tutor. In 1932 he secured a travelling scholarship to visit urological centres in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Innsbruck and Paris, and was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary and Public Dispensary in 1934. He was also visiting surgeon to a number of neighbouring hospitals and lecturer in surgery to Leeds University. Following appointment as consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital in 1940 and to the Infirmary in 1944 he built up a large general surgical practice. In 1948 he was elected to the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) which had only formed three years earlier. He then co-founded the Urological Club, comprising urologists from the teaching hospitals. His consuming interest in urology led him to give up his general surgical practice and start a department of urology in Leeds. By 1956 he was appointed professor of urological surgery in his outstandingly successful department which had attracted researchers of the highest calibre. In the same year he became director of the Medical Research Council Unit in Leeds and set up the first renal haemodialysis unit in the UK with Dr Frank Parsons as its head. He and Professor Bill Spiers persuaded the Wellcome Foundation and other benefactors to fund a four storey research building for the Infirmary which was completed in 1959. Pyrah did outstanding and tireless work in promoting urology and urological specialist centres throughout Britain. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958; President of BAUS from 1961 to 1963; a member of College Council from 1960 to 1968 and was appointed CBE in 1963. In his youth Leslie Pyrah was a gifted pianist (at one time considering a possible career as a concert pianist) as well as a formidable tennis player. He enjoyed good food and wine and was an excellent cook with a particular taste for sauces. He also collected Chinese porcelain and Dutch paintings. Affectionately known as 'Poppah Pyrah' he had a somewhat portly figure and, even in the hottest climate, he always wore a mackintosh and a crumpled grey felt hat. He was a true Yorkshireman of rugged independence, friendly and approachable, never pulling rank and notably hospitable at all times. Pyrah married Mary Christopher Bailey in 1934. She died in 1990 and they had a son and a daughter who survived him when he died on 30 April 1995, another son having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ross, James Cosbie (1904 - 1989)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Cosbie Ross was born in Liverpool on 17 May 1904. He was the son and grandson of doctors, his father being James Ross, a general practitioner in Walton, Liverpool. His mother was Delia Cosbie and James, as the eldest child, took the name of Cosbie. James used this name and linked Ross as 'Cobbie Ross'. He was educated at Liverpool University Medical School. All his life, pre- and postgraduate was spent in Liverpool. He qualified MB, ChB in 1925 with honours and distinction in medicine, passed the MRCS, LRCP the same year, gained the Fellowship in 1930, and the Liverpool ChM in 1931. Cosbie Ross was appointed to the staff of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1932 as a general surgeon. He continued at this hospital until 1945 when on the appointment of Charles Wells as Professor, he was transferred to the Royal Southern Hospital as a senior. He was particularly influenced in his training by Sir Robert Kelly. He showed a progressive interest in urology and in 1943 gave a Hunterian Lecture entitled 'Injuries of the urinary bladder'. At the Royal Southern Hospital he founded a urological unit, one of the first such units in the north west of England. Here he worked on tuberculosis of the renal tract and on urological problems association with spinal injury. He wrote many papers on genitourinary tuberculosis and contributed urological chapters in several textbooks. He wrote a textbook himself *Essentials of surgery for dental students* and he was the lecturer in surgery to the Liverpool School of Dental Surgery for many years. Maybe he will find a place in the Guinness book of records as he wrote no less than seventy-nine articles on urological subjects and some twenty-four on the neurological bladder. Ross indeed did pioneer work in relation to the urological problems of spinal cord injury. He became assistant editor of the journal *Paraplegia*, edited by Sir Ludwig Guttman, 'father' of the spinal unit at Stoke Mandeville. He was appointed director of urological studies at Liverpool University where he was also Chairman of faculty. He was an external examiner to the University of Manchester. He was made an honorary member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and became President of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. His interests included shooting, fishing, walking (including long distances on Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way), sailing and collecting early English watercolours. He acted as honorary appeals director for the final phase of the building of the Anglican Cathedral at Liverpool. His last book was in conjunction, with his brother - *A gifted touch* - a biography of Agnes Jones, the friend and collaborator of Florence Nightingale. He married Muriel Orton in 1934, having one son, Andrew, and one daughter, Lindy. His wife died in 1963. His son, who also qualified at Liverpool, is a gynaecologist at Middlesbrough. A few months before he died he was awarded the 1989 medal of the International Medical Society for Paraplegia, of which he was a foundation member. He died on 15 September 1989 having developed a paraplegia from secondary malignant disease in the spine, the primary being prostatic.
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First Title value, for Searching Pyragh, Leslie Norman (1899 - 1995)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leslie Norman Pyragh was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine at Leeds University, interrupting his course to take an honours degree in physiology. On qualification he did a wide variety of resident training posts during the next five years, notably with Berkeley Moynihan at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he became surgical tutor. In 1932 he secured a travelling scholarship to visit urological centres in Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Innsbruck and Paris, and was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary and Public Dispensary in 1934. He was also visiting surgeon to a number of neighbouring hospitals and lecturer in surgery to Leeds University. Following appointment as consultant surgeon to St James's Hospital in 1940 and to the Infirmary in 1944 he built up a large general surgical practice. In 1948 he was elected to the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) which had only formed three years earlier. He then co-founded the Urological Club, comprising urologists from the teaching hospitals. His consuming interest in urology led him to give up his general surgical practice and start a department of urology in Leeds. By 1956 he was appointed professor of urological surgery in his outstandingly successful department which had attracted researchers of the highest calibre. In the same year he became director of the Medical Research Council Unit in Leeds and set up the first renal haemodialysis unit in the UK with Dr Frank Parsons as its head. He and Professor Bill Spiers persuaded the Wellcome Foundation and other benefactors to fund a four storey research building for the Infirmary which was completed in 1959. Pyragh did outstanding and tireless work in promoting urology and urological specialist centres throughout Britain. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958; President of BAUS from 1961 to 1963; a member of College Council from 1960 to 1968 and was appointed CBE in 1963. In his youth Leslie Pyragh was a gifted pianist (at one time considering a possible career as a concert pianist) as well as a formidable tennis player. He enjoyed good food and wine and was an excellent cook with a particular taste for sauces. He also collected Chinese porcelain and Dutch paintings. Affectionately known as 'Poppah Pyragh' he had a somewhat portly figure and, even in the hottest climate, he always wore a mackintosh and a crumpled grey felt hat. He was a true Yorkshireman of rugged independence, friendly and approachable, never pulling rank and notably hospitable at all times. Pyragh married Mary Christopher Bailey in 1934. She died in 1990 and they had a son and a daughter who survived him when he died on 30 April 1995, another son having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Fergusson, John Douglas (1909 - 1979)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Douglas Fergusson was born on 5 December 1909 at Great Malvern, Worcestershire, the son of John Newberry Fraser Fergusson, FRCS Edinburgh, radiologist at York County Hospital. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was college prizeman and scholar. He then went to St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he was awarded an open university scholarship, the Sutton-Sams Prize in gynaecology and the Cheselden Medal in surgery. After house appointments at St Thomas's Hospital he became FRCS in 1936 and registrar to the surgical unit. In 1938 he was appointed to the surgical staff at the Central Middlesex Hospital where he remained until his retirement in 1974. He developed an interest in urology, starting a department at the Central Middlesex, and in 1950 he was appointed a consultant surgeon to St Peter's and St Paul's Hospital. He played a big part in uniting the staffs of these two establishments. He was appointed the first director of teaching and research when the Institute of Urology was founded in 1951, a post he retained until 1971. Early in his career he developed a special interest in carcinoma of the prostate and he was one of the first to apply Huggins's discovery of the suppressive effect of oestrogens in that disease, and later he pioneered the technique of transsphenoidal Yttrium-90 for ablation of the pituitary in advanced disease. He was an excellent practical urologist - meticulous and unhurried - and he was held in enormous respect and affection by generations of registrars at St Paul's. At the College he was Hunterian Professor 1945-46. A founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, he was secretary from 1957 to 1960 and honorary editorial secretary three times, 1952-55, 1961-64 and 1967-69. Although he was highly critical in his assessment of papers submitted for publication, he was always kind, helpful and encouraging to the unsuccessful author - it was said that his rejection letters were almost a pleasure to receive. He was President 1970-72 and he received the St Peter's Medal in 1977. He was editor of the *British journal of urology* from 1966 to 1972 and at the end of his term of office he was appointed honorary consulting editor. He was a prolific writer and editor of urological texts. For over thirty years Fergusson was an essential part of the British urological scene which he enhanced both personally and professionally in an exceptional number of ways. By nature somewhat reserved those who knew him well appreciated the warmth of his personality and his profound concern for both his patients and his students. He married twice. His first wife, Alice, died in 1969 after a long, distressing illness. They had two sons, both now fourth generation doctors, one in general practice and a Fellow of the College and consultant gynaecologist. His second wife, Myrtle, brought him great happiness in the last ten years of his life and made a delightful home where they entertained their many friends from abroad. With her he shared his enthusiasm for salmon fishing. He died peacefully on 20 April 1979 after a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, Henry Hamilton (1904 - 1970)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Henry Hamilton Stewart was born on 23 August 1904, the son of H A Stewart, a practitioner at Thornton, Bradford. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School, King's College Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. At Cambridge he was placed in the first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1925. At St Thomas's, as a clinical student, he gained the Cheselden Medal, the Solly Medal and the Toiler Prize, all in 1928. After qualification, he held house appointments at St Thomas's, first as a casualty officer, followed by that of a house surgeon and, after being admitted as a Fellow, as a surgical registrar to Sir Percy Sargent. Returning to Bradford he was appointed assistant surgeon to Bradford Royal Infirmary and surgeon to the Childrens Hospital, at the age of 28. He rapidly built up an outstanding reputation as a general surgeon but as time progressed he became more and more a specialist in the field of urology. He was a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and was awarded the St Peter's Gold Medal of the Association in 1968. He was one of the early members of the Punch Club and an acknowledged expert in the difficult technique of punch prostatectomy performing more than 4000 operations between 1947 and 1965. On his retirement in 1969 he was made a Freeman of the city of Bradford, a unique honour for a medical man. His work culminated in his founding of the Postgraduate School of Studies in Medical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Bradford to which he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor and a member of the Council of the University. He consolidated the position of urology in Bradford by establishing a joint unit at St Luke's Hospital and the Infirmary. In 1952 he was appointed a Hunterian Professor at the College as he was an early exponent of the operation of partial nephrectomy in selected cases of renal calculus, his results showing a remarkably low recurrence rate. His scientific approach to a problem and his surgical ingenuity were well demonstrated by his plastic operation for congenital hydronephrosis associated with a lower polar vessel. As a man he was full of ideas carefully thought out and of great courage and endurance, having to contend with serious illness and disability in his later years. As a surgeon he was deeply interested in his patients, possessed of great patience and exquisite thoroughness in all he undertook. He had a charm of manner, a great sense of humour and a slow deliberate manner of speaking, particularly when he was driving home some point in an argument or in teaching. He was a lifelong member of the Bradford St Andrew's Society and its President in 1954. His favourite recreation was salmon fishing. He married Edna, née Pullan, who survived him with their three sons, one of whom is a surgeon. He died on 21 November 1970 aged 66. A memorial service was held in Bradford Cathedral on 25 November 1970. Publications: Partial nephrectomy in the treatment of renal calculi. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1952, 11, 32. A new operation for hydronephrosis in association with a lower polar (or aberrant) artery. *Brit J Surg* 1947, 35, 51.
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First Title value, for Searching Guerrier, Hugh Philip (1913 - 2002)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon Proctologist Coloproctologist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Hugh Guerrier was a consultant surgeon in Torbay. He was born in Muswell Hill, London, on 2 January 1913, the only son of Arthur Philip Guerrier, a solicitor, and his wife, Hilda Gwendolene née Davies, whose father was a general practitioner. Hugh was educated at Cambridge House School, Margate, and Highgate School. He first entered the insurance world, working for the Alliance Assurance Company, but in 1934 decided on a career switch to medicine. He studied at Guy's, where he proved himself to be a good tennis player. After qualifying in 1940, he continued in a wide variety of house appointments in and around London in the early war years. He was an outpatient officer at Guy's, then a resident obstetrician, house surgeon and physician at the Southern Hospital, Dartford, then an orthopaedic house surgeon at Lewisham. He finally took a post in Ipswich. He then joined the RAF as a Flight Lieutenant. On returning to civilian life, he gained his FRCS in 1947, and was a registrar at Guy's and then a senior registrar in the department of surgery, where he received training in the developing specialty of urology. In his formative years, he was influenced by Sir Heneage Ogilvie, F R Kilpatrick, W D Doherty and, during clinical assistant posts at St Peter's Hospital, by J Sandrey, and by W B Gabriel at St Mark's Hospital on the City Road. He was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Torbay Hospital, Torquay, in 1953, but he continued his specialist interests in urology and, to a lesser extent, proctology. He wrote articles on haematuria and haematospermia, contributed to the *Encyclopaedia for general practice* (edited by G F Abercombie and R M S McConaghey, London, Butterworths, 1963), and to the *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* on Paget's disease of the anus. He developed links with the established urology department in Bristol, with John Mitchell, Ashton Miller and Norman Slade, to keep this interest alive. It was in Torquay that he continued to enjoy tennis, also developing further outside interests in sailing, golf and gardening. He was an active member of many learned societies, including the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), of which he was an associate member, serving on it's council from 1970 to 1974. He hosted a successful annual meeting of BAUS in 1974 during his last year on council. Although separated from the metropolis, he was an active member of the sections of urology and proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, rarely missing a meeting of either and serving on both councils. Many will remember him as a congenial and loyal colleague, whose quiet demeanour and whimsical sense of humour was welcoming. He married Shelagh Streatfeild, a doctor and an anaesthetic registrar at the Royal Free, in 1939. They had four sons, the eldest of whom became a consultant in ENT surgery in Winchester. He retired in 1977, and eventually moved to live in East Sussex, where he and his wife enjoyed gardening and some sailing. He found golf difficult in later years because of cardiac problems. Shelagh, his wife, died in 1988. Hugh continued to live in East Sussex, although his health gradually failed after a stroke. He died on 21 March 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Baines, Guy Harrison (1911 - 1985)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Guy Harrison Baines was born on 16 September 1911 at the Vicarage, St Helens, Lancashire, where his father Albert Baines, a Cambridge graduate, was a clerk in Holy Orders and later archdeacon of Halifax. His mother Mabel (née Harrison) came from Liverpool. After early education at Mostyn House, Parkgate, he went to Charterhouse where he became head of his house and represented his school at football, boxing, athletics and swimming. At St John's College, Cambridge, he secured an honours degree in natural sciences in 1932 and became demonstrator in anatomy and physiology. He was president of the University Medical Society and gained blues for boxing and swimming before becoming Hector Mackenzie Exhibitioner at St Thomas's Hospital in 1933. After qualifying in 1936 he held resident surgical posts at his teaching hospital and took the primary FRCS before moving in 1939 to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he was surgical registrar and resident surgical officer while completing the final Fellowship in 1939. He joined the RAMC in 1943, becoming a surgical specialist in the First Airborne Division with which he served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and was then transferred to Burma. There, with a mobile surgical unit, he took part in the Arakan campaign before returning to hospital and field surgical units in NW Europe. After VE day he commanded hospitals at Sandbostel and Belsen concentration camps before becoming officer in charge of the surgical division at No 25 General Hospital. He there met Janet Douglas Ward, a physiotherapist, whom he married just after the war. In December 1945, just before his demobilisation, Guy Baines was appointed assistant surgeon to the Queen Elizabeth and Children's Hospitals in Birmingham, and surgeon to the Guest Hospital, Dudley. He rapidly built up a large practice in general surgery, with a special interest in urology, and eventually devoted himself entirely to urology. He published valuable papers on ectopic ureter, nephrocalcinosis and abacterial pyuria and became an active and popular member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. A man of strong and handsome appearance, a conservative but skilful surgeon, his courtesy, charm and kindly consideration for his patients caused him to be in constant demand. Shortly after their marriage he and his wife settled on a 100 acre farm in Worcestershire, where they raised a family of four children and kept a fine dairy herd. After suffering a myocardial infarct in 1970 he sold the farm but continued with his surgical work until normal retiring age in 1976 when he took up market gardening and served on medical tribunals. He loved the country life but later suffered increasing cardiac disability until his sudden death on 13 December 1985, aged 73. An unselfish and generous man of assertive character, his cheerful temperament and wide interests made him an excellent colleague and staunch friend. He was survived by his wife and by his two sons, Robert and Michael, and two daughters, Rachel-Claire and Julie-Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Murnaghan, Gerald Francis (1926 - 1999)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Gerald Francis 'Joe' Murnaghan, Professor of Surgery at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, can be said to have been the father of upper tract urodynamics, although his work and influence extended far beyond this important area. He was born on 20 September at St Helen's, Lancashire, the son of William and Anne Murnaghan. He was educated at St Helen's Catholic Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh. There he won the Senior John Aitken Carlyle bursary in anatomy and physiology, the Lawson Gifford prize in obstetrics and gynaecology, and distinctions in all parts of his final examinations. After junior posts on the professorial medical and surgical units, he did his National Service in the RAMC as a clinical officer in surgery, serving in the Canal Zone. On demobilisation in 1955, he returned to Edinburgh with the Vans Dunlop research scholarship in surgery and pathology at the University of Edinburgh and a Scottish hospital endowment research trust fellowship. Here he began a series of investigations into the anatomy and physiology of the ureter, which were to continue throughout his life. He was subsequently surgical registrar and senior registrar to David Band in Edinburgh, where he completed his training in urology. In 1957, he went as a senior lecturer to the Institute of Urology in London, where he worked with Roger Pugh. His Hunterian Professorship in 1958 advanced an entirely new theory of the causation of hydronephrosis. This led on to a study of the structure and function of the ureterovesical orifice and the pathogenesis of reflux. In 1961, he was invited to be Associate Professor of Surgery in the new clinical school at the Prince Henry Hospital at the University of South Wales. There he set up an internationally famous centre for the study of urodynamics, with one of the first primate colonies in the world devoted to urological science. In 1969, he was appointed full Professor of Surgery, a post he retained until 1992. Latterly, he became interested in lower urinary tract infection, especially urethritis in women and prostatitis in men. Joe was a popular visiting professor in urological departments all over the world. He was a member of the exclusive American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology* and *Urology Digest*. He was honoured by the British Association of Urological Surgeons with the St Peter's medal in 1984, was President of the Urological Society of Australasia in 1980 and a member of the New South Wales State Cancer Council. He was created a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to medicine in 1995. In 1956, he married Dulcie Greenup. They had three daughters and a son, Angus. There are seven grandchildren. He died on 19 June 1999 from metastases from carcinoma of the colon. A delightful, merry companion, he was a good raconteur, an enthusiastic sailor and loved nothing better than messing about in his boat in and around Sydney harbour. He was a staunch Catholic with a keen enthusiasm for discussion in matters spiritual, ethical and moral.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Robert Edward Duncan (1927 - 2004)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2006-12-21
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Bob Williams was a distinguished urological surgeon based in Leeds. He was born on 18 December 1927 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, the son of Robert Williams, a steelworker, and Janet McNeil. He was educated at Dalziel High School, Motherwell, and Glasgow Medical School. After house jobs in Glasgow he did his National Service in the RAMC, serving as resident medical officer to the Northumberland Fusiliers in Hong Kong. On his return, he received his general surgical training under Sir Charles Illingworth in Glasgow and John Goligher in Leeds, before deciding to specialise in urology, which in those days was emerging as a separate entity. He became senior registrar to Leslie Pyrah in Leeds, who had set up a pioneering stone clinic. There he carried out a painstaking and far-reaching study of the natural history of renal tract stone, which won him his MD. After this he went to work with Wyland Leadbetter at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, in 1964, where he carried out research on total body water and whole body potassium, which was to win him a commendation for his MCh thesis. On his return he was appointed to the consultant staff of the University of Leeds urological department in 1966. He had many interests which were shown in his numerous publications, most notably on urinary calculi, bladder cancer and lymphadenectomy. He followed Leslie Pyrah in the energetic pursuit of the establishment of urology as a separate discipline in the British Isles, which won him the admiration and respect of his colleagues. Bob was president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1989 and a very active member of BAUS, of which he was president from 1990 to 1992. He was awarded the St Peter’s medal of the Association in 1993. He examined for the Edinburgh and English Colleges, and was an invited member of Council of our College from 1989 to 1992. In 1958 he married Lora Pratt, an Aberdeen graduate who was a GP and part-time anaesthetist. They had a son (Duncan) and two daughters (Bryony and Lesley), all of whom became doctors. A genial, cheerful and amusing colleague, Bob was struck down by renal failure caused by polycystic disease of the kidneys, but continued with great courage to work and publish and play an active part in BAUS, despite the need for regular dialysis. A renal transplant unfortunately underwent rejection, and he was, reluctantly, obliged to retire in 1991. He died on 26 August 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Shuttleworth, Kenneth Ernest Dawson (1922 - 2006)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2009-07-10 2010-12-09
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ken Shuttleworth helped establish the urology department at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He was born on 30 April 1922 in Bradford to Frederick and Edith Shuttleworth. His father won a scholarship to Oxford from Bradford Grammar School to read mathematics: his mother was at Girton College, Cambridge. His father won the Military Cross in 1918 for successfully evacuating his gun crew despite a severe wound to his leg. After the war, he became a chartered accountant at Deloitte's, despite his disability, but for a long time it was Ken's mother who kept the family afloat by teaching mathematics at Queen's College in Harley Street. Ken was educated at Watford Grammar School. Despite some early experience in hospital, where he had fainted at the sight of blood every day for a fortnight, he entered St Thomas' Hospital to study medicine in 1939. He qualified in 1944 and at once joined the RAMC, serving in Italy, Egypt and Palestine, an experience which included taking out the appendix of the son of a sheikh, who rewarded him with a feast including the traditional sheep's eyes. On demobilisation, he returned to St Thomas', at first at Midhurst, where he married Phillippa Hartley, and then as a surgical registrar in Lambeth. He was put in charge of an audit of the results of hernia repairs in a large number of policemen, mostly using the nylon darn method, which he published in 1962. He was an exchange fellow at McGill University at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, where he carried out research into intravenous fat therapy and the metabolism of glyceride clearance under Gavin Miller, and took the opportunity to tour America and visit Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic. On his return he was appointed to the staff of St Thomas' and awarded a Hunterian Professorship in the College in 1962. From the days of Cheselden, the urological tradition at St Thomas' had always been a strong one, and at this time was being upheld by R H O B Robinson and Walter 'Gaffer' Mimpriss, who had taken the trouble to visit the United States to learn the technique of transurethral resection with the cold punch from Gershom Thompson at the Mayo Clinic. Both Robinson and Mimpriss continued with general surgery until they retired in 1962 and 1970 respectively. Shuttleworth replaced Mimpriss as a general surgeon, but at once realised the necessity of setting up a specialist department of urology, entirely separate from that of general surgery. Such specialisation in London was at that time exceptional, and he faced opposition from some colleagues who were keen for the overlap between urology and general surgery to continue. But Shuttleworth stuck to his guns and eventually won the day. He realised too that a specialist department must be seen to be carrying out research if it was to be credible, and if its trainees were to gain higher degrees in surgery. At this time at St Thomas' Brian Creamer was breaking new ground with his measurements of the pressure changes in the oesophagus, and this stimulated Shuttleworth to do the same thing in the urinary tract, long before urodynamics had been dreamed of. He sent several of his brighter protégés to San Francisco to learn the latest techniques from Frank Hinman Jr. He extended these studies to the upper urinary tract in the physiology of the ureter and hydronephrosis. The theoretical advantage of combining of hyperbaric oxygen with external beam irradiation was then being developed at St Thomas', and Shuttleworth was keen to offer its advantages to men with carcinoma of the prostate, among whom were some very distinguished people. He was president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) from 1982 to 1984, at a time when many in the surgical subspecialties were urging the surgical Royal Colleges to set up a higher surgical qualification which would indicate when a candidate had been fully trained in his or her specialty. The Edinburgh College had led the way by setting up specialist assessments in neurosurgery and orthopaedics, and approached Ken on the feasibility of a similar examination in urology. Representatives from BAUS visited Edinburgh to observe the assessment in orthopaedics, which impressed and persuaded them of the need for a comparable assessment in urology. BAUS were persuaded to support this concept, but not without some difficulty and only on condition that it would be set up jointly by all four surgical Royal Colleges. The invention by Dornier of the method of extracorporeal shock wave destruction of urinary stones came at a time when the NHS budget was under unusual strain and the Department of Health asked for bids from different London hospitals. The competition was intense, but Shuttleworth put forward a scheme which won the prize, and for the next decade large numbers of renal calculi were referred to St Thomas' for the new treatment. The results of the first thousand cases were published in the *British Journal of Urology* [1986 Dec; 58(6):573-7]. His publications included his Hunterian Lecture [*Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng* 1963; 32:164-179] and a chapter on urological surgery for De Wardener's textbook, *The Kidney*. In committee he was often dogmatic and, as a consequence, nearly always got his way, although not when he was outvoted in the appointment of the first female surgical registrar! (In his view a surgical career was for men.) Because of his strong personality and strong views he had many detractors in the hospital, and strained relationships were also apparent in relation to his somewhat turbulent private life. He was a lover of sunshine and of Italy, owning a villa in Tuscany, where he retreated each summer and produced his own wine. He had three marriages, all of which failed, and from each of which there were children. This was unusual in the then conformist establishment of St Thomas' and some of his more puritanical colleagues were distinctly disconcerted. He also attracted a circle of devoted supporters. In retirement he moved permanently to his Tuscan farmhouse, where he was happy growing his own vegetables, harvesting his hay field, picking his own grapes and making wine, and entertaining friends who visited him from England. Left alone after the death of his partner Pamela, he continued to be a generous host and kept in touch with several of his family. A hip replacement in London did not slow him up and it was only when he suffered progressive amnesia that his family brought him back to England to a nursing home. He was then diagnosed with prostate cancer from which he eventually died on 8 March 2006. His supporters felt that it was sad there was no memorial service for him at St Thomas', as was customary for a departed senior member of the consultant staff.
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First Title value, for Searching Elliot-Smith, Arthur (1901 - 1972)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Arthur Elliot-Smith was born in Cairo on 3 June 1901. He was the son of Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith the distinguished anatomist and anthropologist; his mother's maiden name was Kathleen Macready. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, before coming to University College Hospital and on from which he took his Conjoint Diploma in 1924. He received the Cambridge MB BChir in 1961. He was a good athlete and played both rugby and cricket for his hospital, and became President of the Rugby Football Club. After becoming a Fellow of the College in 1930 he was a surgical assistant at the recently opened Royal Post-Graduate Hospital, Hammersmith, where he worked with Professor Grey Turner; although his interests as a general surgeon were wide, he was already showing a particular interest in urology and paediatric surgery. He had been seconded to the Post-Graduate Hospital from the London County Council service, and returned as senior surgical officer to St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, until his appointment as surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, early in 1939. This coincided with the early days of the development of the Nuffield post-graduate departments and the new Clinical School. House officer and registrar posts under him were keenly sought after, because he was a superb surgeon and an excellent teacher. He was a modest man with a constant air of serenity which endeared him to patients, students, nursing staff and colleagues. His judgment and attention to pre-operative and post-operative care matched his technical skill, so that his colleagues regularly sought his surgical help for themselves and their relatives. He was a clinical lecturer and examiner in surgery for Oxford University. At the outbreak of the second world war he joined the RAMC and served in North Africa and Italy, later becoming consultant surgeon to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force with the rank of Brigadier. On returning to Oxford Elliot-Smith was also appointed consultant surgeon to Savernake Hospital, Marlborough, and throughout the Oxford region his influence on surgery became progressively greater. He was a fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and an Associate Fellow of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Though gentle he was fearless, and could be outspoken when matters of principle were involved. On his retirement in 1966 he returned to North Africa to work at the Moussat Hospital in Tripoli where he studied the differences in the disease patterns of desert-living and rich urban Arabs. He studied experimentally alimentary transit-times and became intensely interested in dietary fibre. On his return to Oxford after two years in Tripoli his interest in foods and their relation to disease and in soil preservation resulted in his election as President of the Oxford branch of the Soil Association and then of the McCarrison Society. He was an initial Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the International Institute of Human Nutrition. He also found time to accept responsibility for a new Simon Trust Vasectomy Clinic in the ante-natal department of the Churchill Hospital and during the first two years of its existence he created such confidence that over 2,000 out-patient vasectomies were performed under local anaesthesia. In 1937 he married Nancy Williamson; their family of four sons and his garden were his two great interests outside his profession; he was particularly interested in hybridizing roses. He died in his garden when in apparent excellent health on 5 August 1972 shortly after his 71st birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, Humphrey Walter (1918 - 1981)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Humphrey Walter Gowland was born in 1918 in Dunedin, New Zealand, the second son of Percy Gowland, who later became the eminent Professor of Anatomy at Otago Medical School. He was educated at first in Dunedin and later at Waitaki College where he had a distinguished international athletic career. He received his undergraduate medical education at Otago, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. He represented the University in cricket and football. His first house surgeon job was at Wellington Hospital. He obtained his Primary FRCS in Dunedin at the first examination for the College to be held outside the UK. He joined the New Zealand Air Force as a medical officer in 1943 serving at Woodbourne and later at Green Island. After the war, he spent a short time in general practice and then became surgical registrar at Wellington Hospital. In 1948 he proceeded to London to study for the Final FRCS and his old friend Dr Tuckey tells an anecdote of this time: 'In January 1948 I left for the UK and Humphrey followed towards the end of the year. I was doing medicine while Humphrey did surgery. Our wives and children shared much in common and we made a few expeditions together. Once on a non-stop trip in southern England on a double decker bus our sons both had urgent need to pass water, Humphrey led the way to the back platform and grasped his son with one hand and held on with the other while his son sprayed following cars, that son is now also a urologist'. He obtained his FRCS in 1949 and then worked at All Saints' Hospital in London during 1952-53 where his subsequent interest in urology was much influenced by Terence Millin. Gowland returned to New Zealand in 1953, entered specialist urological private practice and was appointed to the staff of Wellington Hospital where he served until his death. He became FRACS in 1953 and was appointed to the Dominion Committee of the Council of which he subsequently became Chairman. In 1964 the Medical Council was reconstituted and he became the representative of the RACS and served for four terms on Council. During this time, he became Chairman of the very difficult Penal Cases Committee and Chairman of Council itself in the last year of his life. He held every post of significance in medical and university circles in Wellington. Gowland retained his interest in aviation medicine and became a Wing-Commander in the Territorial Air Force acting as civilian consultant to the Civil Aviation Department and subsequently to the armed services. He became medical advisor to the Antarctic division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and was one of the few medical officers who visited Antarctica and the South Pole in person. Gowland retained his interest in sport, especially cricket and football. He was medical officer to the rugby football union, chairing its committee on spinal injuries. He was also made a life member of the cricket association. He was a Rotarian and gave much to community service, including the setting up of a spina bifida clinic at the Wellington Hospital. He was also concerned with postgraduate education for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and in his own speciality of urology. He had an enormous circle of friends who packed Wellington Cathedral for his memorial service. He died suddenly on 20 February 1981 aged 63, while operating at Bowen Hospital, Wellington.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Kenneth Macfarlane (1882 - 1966)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Urological surgeon
Details Born in Hampstead on 6 June 1882 the son of William James Walker, he was educated at the Leys School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1904. He had his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was assistant editor of the Journal and President of the Abernethian Society. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1906, graduated in medicine and surgery at Cambridge in 1907, and took the Fellowship in 1908, after serving as demonstrator of physiology and house physician at St Bartholomew's. He won the Jacksonian Prize in 1910 with his essay on *Tumours of the bladder and male genitalia*, having decided to specialise in genito-urinary surgery, and was lecturer in venereal diseases at Bart's Medical College. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1911 and again in 1922 and 1924. Between 1920 and 1913 he worked in Argentina as resident surgeon at the British Hospital in Buenos Aires, and retained happy and vivid memories of his South American experiences. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in France, was mentioned in despatches three times, and became surgeon to the Duchess of Westminster's War Hospital. On demobilization he was appointed urological surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, which he served for more than twenty years, retiring at the age limit of 65 in 1947. He was also a consulting surgeon at St Bartholomew's. He was active in many surgical societies, including the Surgery and Urology Sections of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Venereal Diseases Section of the British Medical Association, and for many years was medical secretary of the British Social Biology Council. Walker made a distinguished contribution to his specialty as surgeon, writer and teacher. He endeared himself to his students by his complete freedom from pomposity, and to his colleagues by his gaiety and wit; a friend wrote that "his laugh was always an appreciation, not a sneer." He had many interests and friends outside medicine. He enjoyed fox-hunting, and in his middle years regularly played tennis in Regent's Park. He became more and more interested in the personal and social problems of medical practice both for the doctor and the patient. He was a fluent talker and writer, and in later years a prolific author on the mystical background of life and on psychological and spiritual suffering. He also wrote books for children, three or four popular medical books such as *Physiology of sex and its social implications* (1940), several volumes of reminiscences and a history of medicine in the 1950's, and during his last twenty years at least a dozen books expressing his mystical interpretation of life. His thought was profoundly influenced by his friendship with the Russian religious emigrés P D Ouspensky and G I Gurdjieff. He was a handsome man, but quite careless of appearance, and his character combined innocence with experience. Walker married twice; in 1926 Eileen Marjorie Wilson, and in 1944 Mary Piggott. He died at Midhurst on 22 January 1966 aged 83, survived by the son and daughter of his first marriage. Publications: *Diseases of the male organs of generation*. 1923. *The enlarged prostate*. 1926, and 2nd edition 1933. *Sex difficulties in the male*. 1934. *Genito-urinary surgery*, by Sir John Thomson-Walker, 2nd edition by K.W. 1936. *Human sterility and impaired fertility* (with C L Roberts and others). 1939. *Sexual disorders in the male* (with E B Strauss). 1944.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnston, James Herbert (1920 - 2003)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Herbert Johnston was a pioneer of paediatric urology, determined to make what had been a peripheral interest a specialty in its own right. Appointed first as a general surgeon to a leading children’s hospital, Alder Hey in Liverpool, he soon saw that the urogenital problems required a much closer attention than had been accorded them, and by years of dedicated practice and research he built for himself an international reputation and inspired a succession of young disciples. James Herbert Johnston, known to his intimates as ‘Herbie’, was born on 26 February 1920 in Belfast. His father, Robert Johnston, was in the linen business, his mother, Mary née McCormack, a science teacher. He was always destined for a career in medicine and distinguished himself as an undergraduate by gaining several surgical prizes. He graduated from Queens University, Belfast, in 1943, and after a house job became assistant to the professor of surgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital and at the Children’s Hospital. After military service, from 1946 to 1948, he returned to Belfast, taking the FRCS Ireland in 1949 and the English Fellowship in the following year. He then crossed the Irish Sea, theoretically for a short spell, but actually for the rest of his life, taking up senior registrar posts in Liverpool. There he came under the powerful influence of Charles Wells, who not only trained his registrars but directed them to their consultant posts. Thus it was that in 1956 Herbert was appointed surgeon to the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Although Charles Wells was much concerned with urology, Herbert had had no specialist training and, curiously, he was at first given responsibility for the management of burns. With this in mind he went to a famous burn unit in Baghdad, but this venture was abruptly ended by the Suez War. At Alder Hey Isabella Forshall and Peter Rickham were making great strides in neonatal surgery, but had no particular interest in urology and Herbert saw both the need and the opportunity to make that field his own. As Hunterian Professor in 1962 he lectured on vesico-ureteric reflux, the topic then exciting all paediatric urologists, and went on to produce a long series of papers illuminating important, or neglected, aspects of children’s disorders. He joined with Innes Williams in writing the standard British textbook on this subject and his published work soon brought him an international reputation, with invitations to deliver eponymous lectures in the USA and elsewhere. In 1980 he was awarded the St Peters medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in recognition of his many contributions. In spite of all this evidence of enthusiasm Herbert did not at first acquaintance give an impression of liveliness. Deliberate in speech, he could at times look positively lugubrious. However, he became a popular lecturer, making his points with logic and a clarity laced with dry wit and self deprecating humour. To those who knew him well he was a delightful companion who could make fun of all life’s problems. His hobbies were few, though he was a keen golfer if not an outstanding performer in this field. In 1945 he married Dorothy Dowling, who made a happy home for him and their son and daughter, who are now in the teaching profession. His retirement was marred by a stroke which left him with considerable disability, but he was lucky to have Dorothy to look after him so well. He died on 4 February 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Irvine Battinson (1919 - 1999)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Irvine Smith was a consultant surgeon to Burton-on-Trent General Hospital. He was born in Ilkley on 5 December 1919. His father, Fredric Battinson Smith, was a forensic pathologist who had won the Military Cross in the first world war and later advised the Ministry of Health on setting up a national pathology service. His mother, Mary Irvine (née Johnstone), came from a medical family; her father, Thomas Johnstone, had been dresser to Lord Lister at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Irvine's uncle, George Johnstone, became public health officer for Preston. Irvine was educated at Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge, and did his clinical work at University College Hospital, where he was taught by R S Pilcher, H P Himsworth and F P Browne. After house jobs at the Royal Northern Hospital and Great Ormond Street, he did his National Service in the RNVR, serving as a Surgeon Lieutenant in HMS *Bigbury Bay* and *Liverpool*. He returned to University College Hospital as a demonstrator of anatomy to study for the primary and was then resident medical officer at the Cancer Hospital, and subsequently house surgeon at West Middlesex Hospital and then at Hammersmith, before passing the final FRCS in 1949. He had a special interest in the treatment of cancer, and was house surgeon to the radiotherapy unit at Hammersmith, before going on to be registrar at Preston Royal Infirmary and later Leeds. In 1955 he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic as a research fellow, returning to Leeds as tutor in surgery and senior registrar. There he threw himself into calculous disease in Leslie Pyrah's new unit, and published many papers on the topic. He became something of an expert in the use of the ileal loop and the complications of ileostomy. He was appointed to the consultant staff of Burton-on-Trent General Hospital in 1957. At Burton, although he increasingly specialised in urology, he remained a very general surgeon and was much sought-after as a teacher by young surgeons on the Birmingham rotation. He had a wide range of interests. His urological colleagues will remember his landmark study on trans-uretero-ureterostomy. His surgical colleagues remember him for his advocacy of hemihepatectomy for severe blunt injury - then unheard of. He set up the urological department at Burton-on-Trent. He was also a pioneer in day care surgery - the Burton unit is named after him. He was the prime mover in setting up the postgraduate medical centre at Burton in 1972, where a plaque records him as 'Irvine Smith, Founder'. Irvine had innumerable interests; he had been a keen Boy Scout, and later, an enthusiastic climber (he broke his spine climbing into King's as an undergraduate). He was a diligent and popular member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, disguising a discerning intellect behind a front of apparent diffidence. In later years he became a highly regarded medical historian, making Stephen Hales his particular subject. He married Kathleen Lilley Turner in 1950, who had qualified from UCH and had a considerable interest in family planning. They were divorced in 1985. They had three sons, Robin Goulty (who died as a baby), Geoffrey Lilley (a Professor of Virology at Imperial College, London) and Christopher Frederic (an engineer), and two daughters, Anne Johnstone (who has worked in the blood transfusion service) and Dorothy Battinson (a teacher). In addition to a considerable interest and expertise in medical history, he was a keen ornithologist. He died on 2 October 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Boreham, Peter Francis (1922 - 2014)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Peter Boreham was a much-loved and highly respected general surgeon in Cheltenham with a major urological interest. He was born on 26 May 1922 in Szechuan, China, into a missionary family. He was the second son of the Reverend Frederick Boreham and his wife Mildred née Slater: an older brother, Douglas, died in infancy just six weeks after Peter was born. Peter's early years were not without hazard: he was shipwrecked at the age of two on the Yangtze River. He had two younger siblings, Cicely, who became a headmistress, and John, who was knighted, and was director of the Central Statistical Office. Frederick and Mildred Boreham returned to England from 1924 to 1929 to serve in various livings, including Norwich, where Frederick was priest at New Catton. It was here that Peter started his education in the kindergarten of Norwich High School for Girls. Later, in 1931, when both parents were back in China, he was sent as a boarder to Feltonfleet Preparatory School, where he was later joined by his sister and brother. Peter's departure from Feltonfleet was quite spectacular: he had an accident with a glass door and was taken away by ambulance with a tourniquet around one limb, never to return to his prep school! His secondary education was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. Peter proved a good but not exceptional scholar, and excelled at swimming and athletics. Having decided on medicine as a career, in 1940 he went to Cambridge to study natural sciences and was resident in Jesus College. In Cambridge he became a member of Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union and made many friends through this organisation: this was an acknowledgment of his own Christian faith and his parental influence. He left Cambridge having obtained a BA degree, and went to Middlesex Hospital in 1942 for his clinical training until 1945. During these war years much of his training took place out of London at Aylesbury and Northwood, Middlesex and Harlesden. Having qualified MB BChir from Cambridge, in 1945 he worked as a house surgeon to Arthur S Blundell Bankart, a well-known orthopaedic surgeon on the staff of Middlesex Hospital who had paediatric and neurosurgical leanings. He was better known for his work on shoulder joint dislocation and his description of the 'Bankart lesion'. Peter observed a charming physiotherapist who was watching this famous surgeon operate and was also on his ward round. Peter went to a 'nurses hop' (informal dance), where he was happy to find Kathleen Edith Born, the physiotherapist who had caught his eye earlier. Some six weeks after they first met, Peter proposed and was accepted. On 18 January 1946 Peter and Kathleen (shortened to 'Ka' and pronounced 'Car') were married by Peter's father in West Alvington Church, Kingsbridge, Devon. Clearly during his training life was hard for the newly-weds. Peter was still doing house appointments in 1946 at Middlesex Hospital, working with two well-known surgeons, David Patey and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Patey was a general surgeon with wide interests and was a superb clinical teacher, perhaps better known for his work on breast diseases: he was also founder of the Surgical Research Society. Gordon-Taylor built up a reputation as a fearless surgeon in the First World War and his knowledge of anatomy allowed him to attempt formidable operations. Peter then became a casualty officer at Middlesex Hospital, as accident and emergency experience was at the time a requirement for any doctor wishing to sit the FRCS examination. In mid-1946 it was time for him to do National Service, and he joined the RAMC. After preliminary training, he was posted to the British Army of the Rhine. Having already decided on surgery as a career, he used this period to engage in postal courses to progress his studies for the FRCS. In August 1947 Michael, their first child, was born in Torquay, and Peter was allowed two weeks 'compassionate leave' when Michael was ill. Following two years of National Service, Peter was discharged, later to join the Territorial Army with the rank of major when working as a senior registrar. Back in the recently-formed NHS in 1949, he took up a post as a resident medical officer at a mental hospital in Camberwell, Peter, Ka and young Michael living in a flat in Maida Vale. In May 1949, having passed the FRCS, he obtained a post as a registrar back at Middlesex Hospital, working with Sir Eric Riches and Cecil Murray. This was a popular firm with students and trainees alike: both were superb technicians and good teachers, Sir Eric in urology and Murray in general surgery, particularly in the days when partial gastrectomy was the preferred treatment for chronic peptic ulcer. He continued in this post until 1952, being elevated to senior registrar for the last two years. Their second child, Jenny, was born in December 1949, and this necessitated moving to larger living accommodation in Hampstead Garden Suburb early in 1950. On 1 March 1953, their third child, a second daughter, Judy, was born. After working for three years with Riches and Murray, Peter obtained a research post at Middlesex Hospital to work on 'implantation metastases in surgery'. This provided him with sufficient material for two papers. Already attending meetings of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine, he gave a short paper on 'The surgical spread of cancer in urology' (28 April 1955), which was then published in the *British Journal of Urology* (*Br J Urol*. 1956 Jun;28[2]:163-75). In this he described six cases of carcinoma of bladder recurring in the urethra. A second article on 'Implantation metastases from cancer of the large bowel' was published in the *British Journal of Surgery* (*Br J Surg*. 1958 Sep;46[196]:103-8. Short papers on rare cases increased the number of publications on his CV. He started applying for consultant posts, only to find that there were 60 or more applicants for each post in this post-war period: but was encouraged when short-listed for the odd one. It proved necessary to embellish his CV with a masters degree in surgery. The MChir Cambridge involved writing three papers each of four hours: one had four questions with no choice, another had two questions without a choice and one had one question, again without a choice! Senate House in Cambridge, where he sat to write papers, was not warm in the winter months and 'regular' candidates learned to bring rugs and hot coffee to help. Three vivas of half an hour each completed the examination. Peter obtained this highly prized degree at the second attempt. He next gained a year's appointment as a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital, London. Although the post entailed becoming a 'house-surgeon' again, it was the best job at this stage of his career, enabling him to get concentrated experience in coloproctology. Working with W B Gabriel, O V Lloyd-Davies and Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan was a superb way of adding another 'specialty' to his already broad experience. Gabriel, often known as the 'Archangel Gabriel', was a man with an imposing presence and great physical and moral strength: he had a reputation for total patient care and long operating lists. Oswald Lloyd-Davies was a superb technician with an inventive mind who, with Naunton Morgan, perfected the technique of synchronous combined excision of the rectum for carcinoma. The lithotomy-Trendelenburg position, for which he developed special leg supports, is generally known as the Lloyd-Davies position. Naunton Morgan, also on the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a man of boundless energy and an enthusiastic teacher. Peter's next appointment was again at senior registrar level, although he effectively worked as a second consultant. It was at the Whittington Hospital, north London, where he worked with Neville Stidolph, a South African-born general surgeon with a major interest in urology, who also had an extensive private practice. Peter consolidated his knowledge and experience whilst applying for more consultant posts. Shortlisted for several, in 1958 he was at last successful in Cheltenham for a post advertised as a consultant surgeon with an interest in urology. This post he held until he retired in 1987. Peter and Ka were able to put down roots at last in Cheltenham. At their large Georgian home, the Borehams enjoyed tennis and eventually had a swimming pool built by Peter and his son, Michael. There were plenty of activities centred round their home and they were able to form many friendships in the neighbourhood. The family became active members of Christ Church, Cheltenham, and from 1960 to 1965 Peter was a churchwarden. Two further children were born in Cheltenham - Sarah in 1960 and Caroline in 1961. The enlarged family were able to enjoy holidays in the UK and abroad, camping in Spain and France. Peter was passionate about sailing his Wayfarer dinghy, using his children as ballast. On occasions they were tipped into the freezing Easter waters of Falmouth. As one of three general surgeons, in addition to looking after the majority of urological patients, Peter dealt with a third of the general surgical emergencies. He paid visits to Tewkesbury Hospital and developed a reputation amongst his juniors and colleagues as caring and compassionate to patients, but expecting others to adopt his high standards. As a surgeon he was calm, precise and workmanlike. Perhaps appearing a little stern to those who worked with him, they loved his intelligence, his wry smile and sense of humour which was never far away. He was a great supporter of postgraduate activities, and played a full part in hospital committees, including chairmanship of the consultant staff, whose business he handled with characteristic brevity and effectiveness. He was a consultant member of the former hospital management committee, disbanded during one of the first of the many NHS re-organisations. He served as a member of Gloucester Health Authority and of the South West Regional Higher Awards committee. An active member of the Gloucester branch of the British Medical Association, he became its president in 1975. He was a member and president of South West Surgeons Club and the South West Urologists group. In 1973 he was president of Cheltenham Rotary Club and during his presidency raised money to provide a Land Rover ambulance for a hospital in Kambia, Sierra Leone. In 1961 he was elected to the 1921 Surgical Travelling Club and was an active member for 25 years, serving first as secretary and later as president. Peter and Ka went on the twice yearly visits to most major surgical centres in Europe and a few in the USA. In retirement he wrote *Surgical journeys* (Merlin, 1990) - a history of this club. This was Peter's final publication and was a masterpiece of research. Retiring from the NHS in 1987, a large number of his junior staff came to a farewell dinner in his honour: they made a presentation of a silver salver, with their signatures engraved on it. Naturally, his family and many friends were delighted that all his work, both medical and voluntary, was recognised nationally by the award of an OBE in 1987. Peter and Ka went on a world tour visiting cousins in Canada and Australia, and former trainees with whom he had kept in touch. Peter was made chairman of the Kambia, Sierra Leone, appeal, and they both went to visit and work alongside doctors in the local hospital. Later they were able to welcome many Kambian staff who came to Cheltenham for professional training. Ill-health dogged the later years of his retirement. In 1994 he lost the sight in one eye due to polymyalgia rheumatica. Six years later, he needed major by-pass heart surgery in Bristol. After these health scares Peter and Ka moved out of their large Georgian house into a smaller, more manageable home. In 2002 he needed further surgery, this time for spinal stenosis and, some five years later, he underwent prostatic surgery. Developing very severe pneumonia in 2010, Peter was treated in Cheltenham General and Tewkesbury, the hospitals he had worked in for so many years. Eventually nursing care proved necessary, and he moved into St Faith's Nursing Home. Here, with failing eyesight and general vascular degeneration, he was visited twice a day by his dear wife Ka, who held his hand as they listened to the classical music he had enjoyed throughout his life. Although ailing, he never lost his faculties, and retained much of his excellent memory to near the end. Peter Francis Boreham died with all the family present on 8 March 2014, aged 91. He was survived by his five children, Michael, Jennifer, Judith, Sarah and Caroline, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Several of the family have followed Peter into medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Burgess, Arthur Henry (1874 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Kidd, Francis Seymour (1878 - 1934)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born at Brooklands, Blackheath Park, SE on 30 March 1878, the second child of the marriage of Joseph Kidd, MD, with Frances Rouse, his second wife. His father, the seventeenth of a family of eighteen, was a well-known homoeopathic physician in London; a brother by a previous marriage was Percy Kidd, MD (1851-1942), see *Lancet*, 1942, 1, 184, who was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and became physician to the London Hospital, and his elder sister by the second marriage was Beatrice Mary Kidd, MB, who practised at St Leonards-on-Sea. Two others of his father's fifteen children, Walter and Leonard Kidd, also practised medicine. Frank Kidd was educated at Stratheden House, Blackheath, at Winchester College, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated on 30 June 1896. He entered the London Hospital and was awarded the surgical scholarship in 1903, subsequently filling the posts of house physician, house surgeon to E Hurry Fenwick, surgical registrar 1906, assistant surgeon 1910, surgeon 1917; the latter post he resigned on 8 November 1920. He was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school attached to the Hospital during the years 1910-11. Under the influence of Hurry Fenwick he devoted himself more especially to genito-urinary surgery. He was appointed out-patient clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone in February 1908 and was reappointed at six-monthly intervals until February 1910, after which he did not seek reappointment. He then became attached to St Paul's Hospital in Endell Street, WC, of which he was consulting surgeon at the time of his death. During the war he served in France as captain, RAMC, 1917-19. In March 1929 he was one of the founders and the first editor of the *British Journal of Urology*. He was president of the urological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1927-28; a member of the International Society of Urology, and the Association française d'Urologie; a corresponding member of the Berliner urologische Gesellschaft, of the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons and an honorary member of the American Urological Association, as well as a corresponding academician of the Royal Medical Academy of Rome. At Winchester, where he was in Sunnyside house, he was in the association football XI 1900-04, and later played hockey for the South and was reserve for the England hockey XI. He married in July 1909 Stella, daughter of W Williams of Langland; she survived him with three sons. He died very suddenly of coronary thrombosis on 12 May 1934 at Bransbury Mill, Barton Stacey, where he had been fishing. Kidd was fortunate in his period, for he specialized in urinary surgery at a time when there was much improvement in the technique of ureteric catheterization, when there were improvements in the surgery of the prostate, and when the introduction of X-ray examinations and the development of bacteriology made it possible to discover the cause of most urinary symptoms and to treat the cause with greater safety than was possible for the older generation of surgeons. He held that no urologist could hope to be successful or even competent unless he was fully acquainted with venereal disease and diseases of the urethra. To this end he started a genito-urinary department at the London Hospital. Men only were treated in it at first, but it was afterwards enlarged to admit women and children. He was a clever and dexterous surgeon who used instruments with a minimum of pain and discomfort to the patients, but, being of a nervous temperament, he took things unduly to heart when any contretemps occurred in the after-treatment. Publications: *Urinary surgery*. London, 1910. *Common diseases of the male urethra*. Ibid, 1917. *Common infections of the kidneys with the colon bacillus and allied bacteria*. Ibid. 1920. *Common infections of the female urethra and cervix*, with A M Simpson. Ibid, 1924. He edited the *British Journal of Urology* from 1929 to 1934, with H P Winsbury White.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Arthur Ralph (1876 - 1955)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation Anatomist Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 3 September 1876 son of Vincent Thomas Thompson QC, Assistant Recorder of Leeds, he came of a family many of whose members distinguished themselves through three or four generations in law, medicine, and administrative or academic work; they were related by marriage to similar prominent professional families such as the Brodies and de Morgans. Reginald Thompson FRCP, physician to Brompton Hospital, was his uncle. He was educated at Leeds Medical School and Guy's Hospital, and studied in Paris. While at Guy's he was a strong "forward" in the Rugby XV and later played for Barbarians. Qualifying in 1901 he was a house surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Shadwell, and at Guy's successively demonstrator of anatomy, anaesthetist, surgical registrar, and the first resident surgical officer. While demonstrator of anatomy he wrote a classic paper on dislocation of the hip in infants. Under the influence of Arbuthnot Lane, then the outstanding personality at Guy's, he kept up his anatomical studies, gave a Hunterian lecture at the College in 1908 on the anatomy of long bones in relation to fractures, and became a vice-president of the Anatomical Society. He was appointed in 1910 to be the first surgeon-in-charge of the new genito-urinary department at Guy's, a post he held till retirement in 1936, when he was appointed a consulting surgeon emeritus, for he had built up the department admirably to the highest standards. During the war of 1914-18 he also served at the Grove War Hospital, Tooting. He was President of the Section of Urology in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1931-32, and a member of the International Society of Urology. He examined in anatomy for the Primary Fellowship 1918-23, and was secretary and vice-president of the Chelsea Clinical Society. His great ability and experience were offset by faults of social character. Absolutely honest, he was absolutely without tact, cultivated his prejudices, and was so blunt of speech that he was nicknamed "Rudy". When asked why he wore a bowler hat in the wards, he replied "To annoy the Matron". His uninhibited comments lost him friends and virtually destroyed his private practice, but he was his own only enemy; to those who could bear his mannerisms he was an amusing well-informed companion, and he did acts of kindness by stealth. During the years 1944-53 he was an assessor to the Ministry of Pensions, and a frequent visitor to the College. He had practised at 143 Harley Street and 31 Queen's Gate Terrace. He married in 1906 Florence Wansey who survived him with their two sons and two daughters. He died in Guy's Hospital on 16 October 1955, aged 79, and a memorial service was held in the Hospital Chapel on 28 October. Publications: Joint author with Sir Alfred Fripp: *Human anatomy for art students*. London 1911. Excision of the hip-joint. *Guy's Hosp Rep*. 1905, 59, 347. Relationship between the internal structure of the upper part of the femur and fractures through the base of the neck of the femur. (Hunterian Lecture) *J Anat*. 1907-08, 42, 60. Figures relative to congenital abnormalities of the upper urinary tract, and its surgical anatomy. 1913-14, 48, 280. The capacity of, and pressure of fluid in the urinary bladder. *J Anat*. 1918-19, 53, 241. Primary union in operations on bladder and prostate. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1923, 16, Urology, p. 47. Some features of the elbow joint. *Journal of Anatomy* 1923-24, 58, 368. Some points in connection with the successful issue of simple prostatectomy. (Presidential address, Section of Urology.) *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1931-32, 25; 907. Homer's surgery. *Manchester Univ Med Sch Gaz*. 1954, 33, 238; summary in *Proc Roy Soc Med*, History section, 1953, 45, 765. Recollections. *Guy's Hosp Gaz*. 1951, 65, 347, 363, 384, 409, 425, 447, 466, 494; 1953, 67, 277; and 1954, 68, 73. These "Recollections" show Thompson at his best: generous, amusing, but never unkind character sketches of surgeons and anatomists whom he had known since his student days, with sufficient technical detail to make them interesting as a record of the surgery which he had seen or practised.
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First Title value, for Searching Bonnin, Noel James (1909 - 1989)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-23
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Noel James Bonnin was born on Christmas Day 1909 in Adelaide. He was the son of Winifred, née Turpin, and James Atkinson Bonnin who had become a Fellow of the College in 1898 and was a Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1927. His older brother, Lansell, was an orthopaedic surgeon who was also a Fellow of the College and predeceased him in 1966 aged 47. His brother Josiah (FRCP) became senior physician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and his brother James (FRACP) became Director of the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide. His sister Kathleen was awarded the Royal Red Cross for service in the Australian Army Medical Corps. Bonnin was educated at Queen's School and then St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he enjoyed a notable athletic career. His medical training was at the University of Adelaide. After house appointments he came to England in 1933 and held posts at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Great Ormond Street (where he particularly recalled Sir Denis Browne) and St James's Hospital, Balham. He passed the FRCS in 1936. Returning to Australia he was honorary clinical assistant in surgery from 1938 to 1946 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital but took leave of absence for war service 1940-1946. He served with the Australian Imperial Services in field ambulances, a casualty clearing station, a field transfusion unit and eventually as Officer Commanding of a surgical division in Australian General Hospitals. He served in the Middle East, Syria, Western Desert, Borneo, Brunei and Morotai, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He recalled one occasion in the Western Desert with the 8th Army when he found himself on a casualty clearing station only yards from its German equivalent. The soldiers fought it out while the scientists worked harmoniously with the prospect that, at some point, one side or other would be taken prisoner. The Germans lost, but to no-one's regret, the doctors escaped. After the war he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and, with a Carnegie Travelling Fellowship he studied urology in the United States, England and Canada - under Reid Nesbitt in Ann Arbor and Nathan Berry in Kingston, Ontario. He was appointed honorary surgeon in charge of the new urological clinic in Adelaide but this proved unsatisfactory and he continued his work in urology at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital as honorary assistant surgeon from 1959 and honorary surgeon from 1961 to 1969. His eponymous operation, Bonnin's operation for the removal of the prostate gland, was first described in the *Journal of urology*, 1955. It was first quoted in Bailey and Love's *Short practice of surgery*, 15th edition, 1971, and eventually had a chapter devoted to it in *Current operative urology* by Whitehead and Leiter; Harper and Row, 1975. It was demonstrated on closed circuit television to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons at a meeting in Adelaide in 1968. He was President of the South Australian branch of the AMA, a senior member of BAUS and Fellow of the Urological Association of Australasia. Bonnin was a man of practical and inventive mind and technology was a lifelong passion. His hobby of offshore fishing led him to design and patent a tunnel hull for small craft which is used in some commercial fishing. In retirement he established a red poll cattle stud and patented a significant development in electric fencing. Other hobbies included rowing, lacrosse, tennis, golf, bowls, and painting. He married Helen Prudence May. Her father, Sir Herbert Mayo was senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and the family had several eminent medical relations including John Mayo (FRCS Ed) the first Chairman of the South Australia Anti-Cancer Committee; Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Psychology at Harvard; and George Mayo (his wife's great-grandfather) who settled in Australia in 1839 and revisited England in 1851 obtaining his FRCS on 18 December 1851 and became the first Fellow of the College in the State of South Australia. Noel and Helen had two sons and two daughters, one of whom, Priscilla, became a nurse. He died in July 1989 aged 79 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Quartey, John Kwateboi Marmon (1923 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-30 2007-12-12
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details ‘Kwashie’ Quartey had an international reputation for his work on the surgery of urethral stricture, and was one of the father figures of surgery in his home country, Ghana. He was the sixth of the seven children of Peter David Quartey snr, headmaster of the Government Junior School in James Town, and Elizabeth Abigail Quartey (née Marmon). He was educated at the Achimota Secondary School, where he was senior prefect, and won colours for cricket and hockey. In 1942 he was awarded a Gold Coast Government medical scholarship to Edinburgh, travelling there in convoy at the height of the U-boat war. At Edinburgh he captained the hockey team, became involved with the Student Christian Movement and graduated in 1948. After junior posts, which included a spell at Wilkington Hospital, Manchester, and passing the Edinburgh and English fellowships in 1953, he returned to the Gold Coast. On the ship home to the Gold Coast he met his future wife, Edith Sangmorkie Saki, who was a nurse. Quartey then worked in Ministry of Health hospitals in Kumasi, Tamale and Accra, returning to do a course in tropical medicine in London in 1954 while Edith returned to England to study theatre work. They married in 1955. He was appointed a surgical specialist in 1958 and in 1961 he was awarded a Canadian Government fellowship in urology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, where he is remembered with respect and affection, and where strenuous attempts were made to arrange a full residency for him. On his return Kwashie set up the urology unit at the Korle Bu Hospital in Accra. The following year, 1963, he set up the anatomy department of the new Ghana Medical School, in the absence of any basic medical scientists. He was extremely active in the work of the surgical department, fostering its department of plastic surgery. In April 1978 there was an order for his arrest on charges of treason and he went into exile in Lome, Togo, for six months, during which time it was arranged that he should become a WHO consultant in surgery to the Government of the Gambia. He returned home after the palace coup in which General Acheampong was ousted. In 1981 he described his method of urethroplasty based on his own careful anatomical studies that used a pedicled flap of penile skin, which had the advantage of being non hair-bearing. The method was widely publicised and earned him an ChM from Edinburgh University. He travelled widely and was a visiting professor in Iran, Johannesburg and Mainz. He was a founding member of the Ghana Medical Association and of the West Africa College of Surgeons, of which he became president, and was the recipient of numerous honorary distinctions, including the unique posthumous award of the St Paul’s medal by BAUS. He was still busy with the Operation Ghana Medical Mission at the age of 82, and it was when returning from one of these outreach visits that he was involved in a fatal head-on road collision on 27 August 2005. Only two of the 10 occupants of the two vehicles survived. A state funeral was held in the State House in Accra in the presence of the President. Kwashie had an ebullient, irrepressible personality, which won him friends throughout the world of surgery and urology. He left a son (Ian Malcolm Kpakpa), daughter (Susan Miranda Kwale) and six grandchildren (Alexis Naa Kwarma, Smyly Nii Otu, Arthur Nii Armah, Nana Akua, Obaa Akosua and John Nii Kwatei).
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First Title value, for Searching Ainsworth-Davis, John Creyghton (1895 - 1976)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis was born on 23 April 1895 at Aberystwyth. His father was Professor of Biology in the University of Wales and later Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He was educated at Westminster School and from there went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, with the Triplet Exhibition and an open exhibition in 1914. At Christ's he started reading medicine but after one term, he joined the 6th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade in December 1914 as a Second Lieutenant and served in France and at Salonika. He was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1917 as an observer and received his pilot's wings in Egypt. He returned to England in 1918 and was posted to the Central Flying School at Upavon, gained a 1A Certificate at the Advanced Flying School and completed his war service as an instructor. Demobilized in January 1919 he returned to Christ's gaining the BA degree in 1920. He went to St Bartholomew's Hospital in April 1920 and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. Next year he passed the Cambridge BCh and in 1925 obtained his MB. He received the MD degree in 1933, having gained the Edinburgh FRCS in 1926 and the English Fellowship in 1929. In 1924 he was house surgeon at All Saints' Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases, where he later became registrar and assistant surgeon and was much influenced by Canny Ryall. He held appointments at the Royal Waterloo Hospital, the Bolingbroke Hospital, and at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, in each case as consultant in urology. In the second world war he was in the medical branch of the Royal Air Force with the rank of Wing Commander and was officer in charge of the surgical division at the RAF Hospital, Cosford. In his professional life he was Vice-President and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, Secretary and President of the Hunterian Society, a member of the Council of the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of the Section of Urology, and a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He was a skilful instrumentalist and endoscopist and wrote many papers in specialist journals as well as his book *Essentials of urology* which was published in 1950. Ainsworth-Davis was an athlete of considerable distinction gaining his colours at Christ's at rugby, tennis and athletics. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay in the 1920 Olympic Games and in the same year represented the British Empire against the United States. As a boy he played the violin, and when Sir Adrian Boult brought the BBC Symphony Orchestra to an RAF station during the second world war and was told he was going to meet a Wing Commander Ainsworth-Davis he asked correctly, if this would be the same man who, as a boy, had taken the solo part in Mendelssohn's violin concerto at a Westminster School concert. Sir Adrian remembered the performance as a most distinguished one. At Christ's College he was a member of the 'Original Christie Minstrels' and during his student days at Bart's led a dance band. He was a devotee of ballroom dancing and for this also won a gold medal. He was an enthusiastic Freemason and ran a Lodge of Instruction for many years. Ainsworth-Davis was twice married: first in 1920 to Marguerite Wharry, sister of H M Wharry FRCS (1891-1933), by whom he had one son and two daughters; and secondly in 1947 to Irene Hope. He died on 3 January 1976.
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First Title value, for Searching Rawlinson, James Keith McClure (1923 - 2014)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-12-12
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Keith Rawlinson was a general surgeon with an interest in urology at Walton Hospital, Liverpool. He was born on 1 August 1923, the second son of James Herbert Rawlinson (always known as 'Rawli'), a pre-NHS surgeon who practised at the Liverpool Northern Hospital, and Mabel Rawlinson née McClure, a nurse. His mother died in 1930 when Keith was just seven, and he and his older brother were cared for by an aunt until Rawli remarried in 1938. His stepmother, the widow of a family friend, Henry Roberts, became known as 'Granny' George in the family. Keith's brother, J Geoffrey Rawlinson, worked in the chemical industry after serving in the Army during the Second World War, and then spent 25 years as a management consultant. The two brothers were close and in their younger days went on holidays together, fell walking and exploring the Lake District. Keith developed Perthes' disease of the hip in his early years: this was treated with bed rest and he was put in a frame. Although the osteochondritis settled down, he was left with a permanent and characteristic limp, and in adult life tended to use a stick. After preparatory school at Braeside, Hoylake, he went to Oundle School for his secondary education. Here he had a good academic record, winning several form prizes and an award for shooting. Other competitive sports and subsequent Armed forces enrolment were clearly out of the question in view of his previous hip disease. He entered Liverpool University for his medical training and served in the Home Guard whilst studying. He saw plenty of action during the wartime raids on Liverpool when incendiary devices were dropped on West Kirby and other areas. Medical students also cared for the returning wounded soldiers as part of their routine clinical experience. He qualified in 1947 and house appointments followed in the Liverpool area. His first house surgeon post was with Philip Reginald Hawe at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, who had a reputation as a good general and paediatric surgeon, and was a fine teacher. A house physician post to Leslie Cunningham followed, again at the Northern Hospital. Keith may have contemplated a career in orthopaedics, as he proceeded to an orthopaedic house surgeon post with E N Wardle for a year, and was upgraded to junior registrar. However, general surgery beckoned, and he returned to work with Hawe for two years as his registrar. By then his chief had developed a specialist interest in head and neck surgery, and thyroid diseases in particular. Keith was given three months' study leave to attend fellowship courses in London, including one at St Bartholomew's Hospital. During this time he passed the FRCS. He was now in a position to gain more general experience, this time with A Rose at the Royal Southern Hospital in Liverpool from October 1952 to September 1953, and then for two years up to March 1957 with J B Oldham, another excellent clinical teacher. His new chief was a perfectionist who ran an excellent unit, but could be outspoken at times. Keith's higher surgical training at senior registrar level was supervised by Charles Wells. Trainee and trainer were both born in Liverpool, and educated there as undergraduates. Wells was appointed to the Royal Southern Hospital as a general surgeon with interests in urology, inflammatory bowel disease and gastric surgery. He built up a large practice in the NHS and in private work and had an enormous capacity for hard work. Expecting his trainees to develop the same ethos, by the time Keith joined him Wells had already assumed full-time academic professorial status, and was attracting many able young trainee surgeons from all over the United Kingdom and from overseas. A hard taskmaster, he encouraged Keith in his research work for his masters degree, which he wrote up as 'Intestinal motility in the post-operative period'. Pending gaining a permanent consultant post, Wells encouraged Keith to undertake locum consultant positions. One of these was in 1958 on the Isle of Man: here he gained notoriety for saving the life of a motorcyclist who had been involved in a serious accident during the TT race and needed emergency neurosurgery. The following year, he worked in a more sedate post at Musgove Park Hospital, Taunton, for six months. In 1960 he was appointed as a general surgeon with an interest in urology to Walton Hospital, Liverpool: after 12 years he switched to practise pure urology and, initially with Norman Gibbon, ran the urology services at Walton for 17 years. He was very interested in urodynamic studies and explored the place of self-hypnosis in the management of urge incontinence. He engaged in private practice from Rodney Street, Liverpool, and operated from Park House with his friend and anaesthetist, Tom Forrest. Keith was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution, being its secretary for a few years and becoming a life member in 1993. He and his wife enjoyed membership of the Grey Turner Travelling Surgical Club from 1963 to 2000, and he was the 'chronicler' of its travels at home and abroad for almost 20 years. He played an active part in the Innominate Club of Liverpool, founded in the 1930s as a dining/debating club for medical practitioners. Usually meeting each month in the winter, members gave talks to each other on non-medical subjects: some of Keith's subjects were on 'time', 'watch this space', 'Iona' and 17th century Swedish warships and astronomy. All these topics indicate that Keith was widely read: he felt it was important to find time during the day to pause and reflect on something outside oneself. He was a committed Christian, but questioning of matters relating to his personal faith. Family life was important to him. He met Griselda Carlisle, his future wife, at her 21st birthday party in August 1951. She was the youngest daughter of Henry Carlisle, a general practitioner, and was a talented pianist. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, taught in London and performed. They were married on 23 May 1954 at St Peter's Church, Heswall. Griselda gave occasional recitals and accompanied soloists in their early married life, but her professional life really took off again in the mid-1970s, once the family was established at school and university. She accompanied choral groups, and taught in schools and at Liverpool University. Keith and Griselda had three children, Nigel, Iain and Fiona. Nigel trained in surgery and was later ordained as a minister. Iain qualified as a lawyer and has worked in banking and as a company and charity director. Fiona trained as a GP and then became a consultant in palliative medicine. In spite of his hip disability, Keith became a member of the Caldy Golf Club, having been a member of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club as a boy, when he played with his father. He was an active member of Clwyd Anglers, and fished there most Wednesdays on his afternoon off work. He enjoyed trout fishing, and tied his own flies. In Scotland, Keith and Griselda fished on the Dee, but their main fishing was on the Polly River. Since the end of the First World War, Griselda's father had taken a month's holiday every year at Inverpolly Lodge and the extended family carried on this tradition up until 2013. A caravan also allowed the Rawlinson family weekend breaks away from the pressures of medical life. Keith enjoyed creating things, including the setting up a hydroponic system in his greenhouse to water lettuces and tomatoes. He made radio-controlled cars, boats and, rather ambitiously, an aeroplane. He built a dinghy in the glass house at home for the family to enjoy. Fond of classical music, Keith was a regular attender at Royal Philharmonic concerts. He played the organ at home: it had two manuals with a full pedal board. As the children learned to play recorders, not to be outdone, he joined them. When he started a new instrument he would take lessons and practise seriously. He was fond of his MGB sports cars, but rarely exceeded the speed limit. The evening meal was often delayed as Keith was frequently late back from work. Meals taken together were always dynamic times as conversation flowed back and forth. Griselda was always the rock underpinning and building 'Glenburn' in Heswall, Merseyside, their permanent home. This was the house to which the family returned, came for sanctuary, brought friends and partners, and in which life decisions were made. Keith retired in 1989, but was invited back to help with 'waiting list initiatives'. He continued to read the *BMJ*, quizzing his medical children on articles before they had time to read them! Keith and Griselda found more time to travel together. They toured New Zealand in 1992 and Canada and the Rockies in 1994 in a campervan, and they were able to visit their son Iain when he was living in South Africa. Keith continued exercising daily in the hope of staying as mobile as possible, and took up golf again, but he needed artificial joint replacements to both hips and both knees. He continued to be mentally agile and stimulation came from playing bridge. In later years, he tackled the intricacies of technology, learning to use Skype and latterly an iPad. As his general health began to deteriorate, adaptations were made within the house: inevitably with the 'Keith Rawlinson' touch of creativity. Keith Rawlinson died peacefully with his family present at his home on 12 March, 2014 aged 90. He was survived by his wife of 59 years, Griselda, his children Nigel, Iain and Fiona and his grandchildren Claire, Anna-Fleur, Sam, Adam, Tom and Kitty. Keith's passion for learning, his interest in life and his ability to extract the very most out of each day will be remembered by all who knew him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward-McQuaid, John Francis Neil (1918 - 1988)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Francis Neil Ward-McQuaid, the son of Colonel John FTP Ward-McQuaid and his wife Enid Ecila, née Cheshire, was born on 30 December 1918 at Neston, Cheshire. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, where he won several prizes and was a notable cricketer. As the son of a serving army officer he was awarded a Kitchener Scholarship to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. After graduating in 1942 he did one resident appointment and then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in which he remained for several years after the end of the second world war. He had become a graded surgeon in the Middle East and his last appointment was as surgeon to the Trans Jordan Frontier Force, at Zerka, with the rank of Major. On demobilisation he was surgical registrar and tutor at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then senior registrar to Arthur Dickson Wright at St Mary's Hospital before being appointed consultant surgeon to Mansfield and Kings Mill Hospitals. These were both immensely busy institutions in the Nottinghamshire mining area where Neil acquired rich experience in general and urological surgery. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and served on its Council and was also a member of Council of the British Association of Surgical Oncologists. At the Royal College of Surgeons he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and was a Hunterian Professor. He served on the Court of Examiners for two spells and was ultimately its chairman. He was also President of the Section of Surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine. A keen and active member of the International Society of Surgery, he organised an excellent meeting at Mansfield in 1980 between that society's regular biennial international gatherings. Despite his exceedingly busy life in two regional hospitals, where he himself made significant contributions to notably high standards of care, he conscientiously fulfilled his many other professional commitments and published a number of papers on general and urological surgery. He was active in church affairs and was awarded a papal knighthood of St Sylvester in recognition of his years as master of the Nottingham Catholic Guild of Doctors. He had a quiet, friendly, unflamboyant style with a teasing sense of humour and it was said that his whole personality was admirably illustrated on the cricket field where he was an accurate and cunning spin bowler. He was steadfast and loyal to all his friends and an entertaining companion. He married Elizabeth Conway, a schoolteacher, in 1943, and they had six children. One of their two sons is a consultant anaesthetist and the other a psychologist. Of the four daughters, one is a nurse and another is a hospital manager in the United States. On his retirement Neil greatly missed his hospital work and was soon overcome by ill health. When he died, aged 70, on 8 July 1988, he was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, James Christie (1899 - 1984)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Christie Anderson, third child and third son of James Alexander Anderson, a schoolmaster, and Jeanie (née Boswell), was born in Dundee on 4 December 1899. After early education at Butterburn School and Dundee High School he secured an entrance scholarship to St Andrew's University where he originally intended to study agriculture. But his studies were interrupted by the first world war when he joined the Navy as a probationer Surgeon Lieutenant in 1917. On returning to Queen's College, Dundee, he won the obstetrics and gynaecology medal before graduating in 1922. He was house surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, before serving as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital in London. During this period in London he played rugby football for the London Scottish. He then moved to Chesterfield before becoming surgical registrar at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, in 1926. He passed the FRCS in 1928 and was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at Sheffield in 1934. He was also lecturer in surgery and applied anatomy to Sheffield University. Originally a general surgeon, Jock, as he was universally known, developed a growing interest in urology to which he later made a number of important contributions, notably in relation to carcinoma of the bladder and also hydronephrosis. The Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty procedure was devised in concert with a plastic surgeon colleague in Sheffield. Having enrolled in the Territorial Army before the second world war, he was called up on the outbreak of hostilities and became officer in charge of the surgical division of No 29 British General Hospital with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in Persia and Iraq and later in Normandy after D-day. When hostilities ceased he was called on to tend the victims of Belsen. He was awarded the OBE and TD and was mentioned in despatches. On demobilisation in 1945 he returned to Sheffield where his surgical work became primarily urological. He was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1961 and hosted a meeting in Sheffield of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1962. He also served for two spells on the court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons up to 1968 and was on the advisory panel on the training of surgeons. Outside his surgical work with relatively little knowledge of agriculture, Jock purchased a farm in Lincolnshire in 1948. Busily engaged in surgery during the week, farming soon became his second love at weekends. This led quite naturally to a new life after retirement when he and his wife bought a farm in Western Australia some 200 miles south of Perth where he raised sheep and a splendid herd of cattle and, not forgetful of his first love, became an elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1971. One of his sons, James Christie Anderson, FRCS, is an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth; the second son is a veterinary surgeon also in Australia, and two of the three daughters emigrated to Australia, so that the family largely remained in proximity after his retirement from Sheffield. Jock Anderson was a most industrious, cheerful and kindly man who made innumerable friends all over the world. Above all he loved a good argument. His surgical firm at Sheffield was a happy one for he gave much encouragement to his juniors and had the knack of bringing the best out of everyone. He had an abiding interest in history; was blessed with a good memory, and was a generous and charming host, with as much enthusiasm for vintage wines as for vintage Rolls-Royces. When he died in Perth, WA, on 3 February 1984 he was survived by his wife, his five children and fourteen grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Wade, Robert (1798 - 1872)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-16
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Occupation Apothecary General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born on November 23rd, 1798, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, in which town his father carried on business as a brewer. He received his early education at a neighbouring school, and having been duly apprenticed came to London when 20 years of age. He had expected at once to attend lectures and hospital practice, but his father having become involved in difficulties, young Wade was thrown upon his own resources. Of a robust frame, strong will, and a hopeful disposition, he looked to the future with confidence. He became assistant to one of the 'top apothecaries' in the West End, and for some years was a veritable drudge. He made up all the medicines, attended most of the night cases and all the lower class of midwifery. He entered St George's Hospital about the year 1817, passed the College of Surgeons in 1819, and the Apothecaries' Society in 1820. The office of Apothecary to the Westminster General Dispensary falling vacant, Wade became a candidate for it and was elected by a small majority. He fulfilled the duties of his appointment with great credit to himself and benefit to the institution for some years. About 1828 he commenced practice on his own account, at 68 Dean Street. For some time he eked out a somewhat scanty income by taking pupils, who always spoke of him afterwards with affectionate respect. Wade, on his retirement from the office of Apothecary to the Dispensary, was unanimously elected Surgeon to the institution, and this office he held to the day of his death, performing the duties with such fidelity and punctuality that he was presented by the Governors with a handsome piece of plate in recognition of his services. The name 'specialist', when he took the office of Surgeon to the Dispensary, was all but unknown, but circumstances drove him, as it were, to choose a particular line of practice. Amongst the crowd of patients which attended on his 'days', numbers were affected with stricture of the urethra in all its forms. He soon found that some of them could not be successfully treated by simple dilatation, and he directed his mind to discover some means by which they could be treated with safety. Shortly before, the system of treatment carried out most extensively by Sir Everard Home had fallen into discredit, in consequence of the disastrous results ensuing from it. Home had recourse to the nitrate of silver, and no doubt was very successful in many cases, but he carried his practice to a degree of heroism which ended in its downfall. Thomas Whateley, after the failure of the lunar caustic, practised and advocated the use of the potassa fusa in the more intractable kinds of stricture. He had but a limited success, and at his death no one seemed desirous to become his successor. Then a new system of treatment was practised by some surgeons of more or less eminence, G J Guthrie (qv) and R A Stafford (qv) being foremost amongst them. This consisted in what was termed internal incision: a bougie armed with a knife was inserted into the urethra, and when the seat of the obstruction was fairly reached, the knife, being worked by a spring at the handle of the instrument, was protruded and the stricture freely divided. For a time all went well, but cases of severe haemorrhage were common, and fatal results occasional, so this variety of internal urethrotomy lost ground and died with Stafford, who, notwithstanding all its dangers and drawbacks, contended to the last that it was, on the whole, the most efficient and the safest that could be employed. Wade had opportunities of trying these plans of treatment, and after a long and anxious trial came to the conclusion that Whateley's was the best remedy; but he was soon convinced that the caustic potash had been used too freely by Whateley, just as the lunar caustic had been too freely employed by Home. He accordingly commenced his application of caustic potash in very minute quantities, and gradually increased them. He soon found that all the benefits of this agent could be obtained without resorting to the more powerful, and sometimes dangerous, amount employed by Whateley. Always cautious and painstaking, he hesitated long before he gave his views to the profession. At length, fortified by an experience of several hundred cases in public and private practice, he ventured to stand forth as the advocate of the use of that remedy in cases of irritable and intractable stricture. He denounced at first in unmeasured terms the 'perineal section' of Syme; but he was not a bigoted antagonist, and when he found he was wrong he acknowledged his error. One instance will suffice. Thomas Henry Wakley (qv) proposed and practised a most ingenious plan of treating stricture by gradual dilatation. In one edition of his work Wade strenuously opposed this plan, believing that it would cause laceration and danger; but he felt bound to satisfy himself on that point, and after some trial of the plan was convinced that in certain cases it might be employed with safety and advantage. In the very next edition of his work on stricture, he not only acknowledged his error, but actually gave a lithographic illustration of Wakley's instruments, and spoke of them with approbation. This is to his honour; for the *Lancet*, which represented the interests of Wakley, had attacked him with a rancour which was neither just nor justifiable. In 1834 he delivered a course of lectures on pathology at the Little Windmill Street School. He took few holidays - 'work to him was leisure'; but he annually rented a house at Hampstead for a 'little change', where he walked and talked with his family and friends amid the quiet lanes, the fertile fields, and the wooded heights of that suburban 'paradise'. A great appreciator of everything beautiful in nature, and a lover of the arts, he was anxious to obtain some works of William Henry Hunt (1790-1864). It was not, however, till 1851 that his means allowed him to indulge in what he then regarded as an expensive outlay. This was done with much caution and misgiving. The drawings by this distinguished artist at this period were but one-tenth of the value which they afterwards realized at public auctions. In an interview with William Vokins, who at this time had the majority of Hunt's works from the easel, and while contemplating a drawing of a 'Bird's Nest', the price of which was but twenty-two guineas, Wade expressed his great desire to purchase, but added: "I am but a poor surgeon, and though I should like it much, I hardly feel justified in doing so; but tell me honestly, should it so occur that I am unable to retain it, is it likely I may get my money again?" Being perfectly assured on this point, Wade bought the picture, and it was the nucleus of a collection of drawings of fruit, flowers, etc, entirely by this master - not large, but admitted to be unique in quality by everyone acquainted with the matter who had seen them, either on his walls or at the loan exhibitions, to which he was at all times a willing contributor. The possession of these drawings led to his acquaintance with the artist, and he became his medical adviser, attending him in his last illness. The collection - a remarkably fine one - was subsequently sold by Christie & Manson, and fetched enormous prices. Wade died at his house in Dean Street, Soho, two hours after a cerebral haemorrhage, on January 16th, 1872. Publications:- *Observations on Fever*, 8vo, London, 1824. *Practical Observations on the Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra*, 8vo, London, 1841; 2nd ed, greatly enlarged, 1849; 4th ed, 1860. *Conservative Surgery of the Urethra...Treatment by Potassa Fusa*, 12mo, London; 2nd ed, 1868.
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First Title value, for Searching Tresidder, Gerald Charles (1912 - 1996)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Gerald Tresidder ('GCT') was born on 5 December 1912 in Rawalpindi where his father, Lt Col Alfred Geddes Tresidder, FRCS, was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. His was mother Lilian Annie, née Trelease. His career followed what was then the Anglo-Indian norm: 'home' at the age of eight, school at Haileybury, and then the London Hospital, where he played rugby football and tennis for the hospital. Qualifying with the conjoint in 1937 he worked first as an assistant in the clinical laboratory before becoming house surgeon to Messrs Milne and A M A Moore, going on to become junior clinical assistant to the orthopaedic department, receiving room officer, and finally junior and senior resident accoucheur, which brought with it the office of president of the residents' mess over Christmas 1938/39. After this he became an anatomy demonstrator, a task which he greatly enjoyed, finding the teaching of anatomy always very congenial. He coached his colleagues for the primary FRCS and they duly passed in 1939. On 7 September 1940 he married Ida Livingston Marguerite Bell, and both went out to India to join the Indian Medical Service, where he was posted as a graded surgeon, serving in Rawalpindi and Calcutta. In spite of being posted to two field hospitals due to go to Burma he never got there because both hospitals were disbanded. During his time in the IMS he tried to improve the training of its junior officers. One attempt, after much research, culminated in a withering report on the poor quality of training of field medical officers. Another involved the despatch of blood for transfusion from Calcutta to hospitals fleeing the Japanese advance into Burma in 1942. These activities finally caused some distant Delhi warrior to post him as far away as possible - to Bannu on the North West Frontier. Fortunately it was not long before his recommendations reached more intelligent ears, and he was brought back and promoted as one of six surgical specialists to the 1300-bedded Indian Base Hospital in Kirkee, then receiving wounded from Burma and Italy, and then acting as peripheral nerve centre for the Indian army. In 1946 Gerald returned to the London as an anatomy demonstrator, while he (and his father) studied for and passed the final FRCS, son before father. In September 1947 he was appointed a 'class III supernumerary registrar in the accident and orthopaedic department', where he was spotted by Victor Dix, who invited him to join him in setting up the new academic surgical unit. There he specialised in urology. He was appointed as a general surgeon in 1951, and was at once seconded to Ann Arbor to learn the new technique of transurethral resection of the prostate from Reed Nesbit. On his return he encountered many difficulties in setting up transurethral resection at the London in 1952. Any diathermy machine that was powerful enough to cut under water had long since been requisitioned for counter-radar purposes; there was no supply of the large amounts of sterile fluid required for irrigation for, far from being sterile, the hospital tap water was always contaminated with pseudomonas. This was the time when streptomycin, PAS and INAH had cut a swathe through tuberculosis, with the result that there were many patients in whose urinary tracts the mycobacteria had all been killed, leaving large defects to be made good. French urologists in occupied Paris had shown how these defects could be repaired with isolated loops of large or small bowel. It was work for which Gerald's methodical and patient craftsmanship was specially suited. Among these patients were some who ended up with a permanent nephrostomy, for which changing the tube was always difficult and hazardous; he devised a simple and effective technique which is still named after him. Later he collaborated with Dix in the use of radiotherapy for bladder cancer, but soon found that after beam radiation therapy the ureterocolic anastomoses almost always leaked, frequently with lethal consequences. He adapted the ileal conduit to these patients with a success which won him the respect of his urological peers. He was elected to the Council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He had the misfortune to diagnose in himself the rare Azzopardi type of seminoma; he subsequently underwent orchiectomy and radiotherapy, and then took early retirement from the London Hospital in 1976, devoting the rest of his life to his first love, the teaching of anatomy, first in Southampton and then in Leicester. It was in this milieu that he was most happy, and he was always sought after by medical students who enjoyed his knack of making the dead bones come alive with clinical meaning based on his wide experience of surgery. He was an active member of the Anatomical Society, examined in the Primary for the English and Edinburgh Colleges both at home and abroad and continued to teach anatomy long after most men would have given up. Indeed, it was only after he had successfully undergone an operation for a second cancer (of the pancreas) in his old hospital that the idea of retiring ever occurred to him, by which time he was 78. By a remarkable coincidence he was staying overnight in the Nuffield College for a routine follow-up appointment with his surgeon when he developed severe abdominal pain and asked for an ambulance: Roy Gilbert happened to be on duty, and he bundled him into his car and drove him at once to the London Hospital, where he was found to have a volvulus. The second-look laparotomy showed no evidence of recurrence. In his last five years he remained alert and spry, always keenly interested in all things medical. He shared his love of walking, reading and discussion with his wife Marguerite, his three children and his grandchildren. He died on 3 May 1996 in Derby.
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First Title value, for Searching Kock, Nils Gustav Johannes (1924 - 2011)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2015-03-20
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Occupation Colorectal surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Nils Kock, professor of surgery and chief of the department of surgery II, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, was an eminent colorectal surgeon, widely known for his development of the 'Kock pouch', a continent pouch formed by using the terminal ileum after colectomy. Known as 'Nicke' to his friends, Nils Kock was born on 29 January 1924 in the Finnish town of Jakobstad ('Jacob's city'), to use its Swedish name, and Pietarsaari ('Peter's Island') in Finnish. This town in Ostrobothnia, western Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia, is an important Finnish port and industrial centre with some 20,000 inhabitants. Nils Kock's family were Finnish-Swedish in origin. His father, Emil Kock, owned an equipment store in Jakobstad: his mother, Aili Kock née Lönnmark, was a housewife. Nils had one older brother, Sven, who became a professor of economics, and an older sister, Auda Andersson, a language teacher. The first four years of Nils' school life were spent in the Jakobstad Folkskola, or elementary school, followed by eight years at the Jakobstad Samlycéum or secondary school. His teenage years were interrupted by the Second World War. Drafted into the Finnish Army, he was involved in the confrontations between Russia, Germany and the Western Allies. Entering the Army as a private in the heavy artillery, by the end of the war he had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. His home town of Jakobstad was bombed by the Russians during the war years. Nils Kock was always modest about his war-time experiences, but these years remained important to him for the rest of his life: he was very proud of belonging to the Finnish Second World War veterans. Demobilised after the war, Nils applied for entrance to Helsinki University to study medicine. As his school grades were not all that outstanding, even after being given extra marks for exemplary military service, his first application was turned down. Clearly disappointed at the outcome, he entered what he felt was the second best option, the dental school. Within a year he re-applied for a place on the medical course at Helsinki University and was successful. He was further compensated for this early upset by meeting his future wife, Birgit Bretenstein (known as 'Bie'), a student of languages. She was born in Tampere in southern Finland. Their romance led to their wedding in 1950 at a small family ceremony. They had a very happy and successful life together. The first of two daughters, Anki, was born in Helsinki in May 1952. Nils graduated in 1951 and held post-qualification house appointments in Helsinki, but to realise his ambition of specialising in surgery, he decided to move to Sweden in the hope of gaining entrance to a residency programme. Travelling in the autumn of 1952 with his wife and daughter, he studied hard in order to pass the Swedish qualifying examination in the spring of 1955. By now the Kocks had another daughter, Maria, who was born in Gothenburg in January 1955. Having a Swedish licence to practice, he managed to get a foot on the first rung of the ladder as an assistant in surgery in the department of surgery I, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The period of higher surgical training within the University Hospital was to last another five years or more. He was to remain in Gothenburg for the rest of his professional life: from 1974 to 1990, when he retired as professor of surgery and chief of the department of surgery II, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. He formed the opinion that to progress in his chosen career of surgery, basic science education must work hand-in-hand with clinical work. Supervised for two to three years by Bjorn Folkow, head of the department of physiology at Gothenburg, Nils worked towards a PhD thesis. Entitled 'An experimental analysis of mechanisms engaged in reflex inhibition of intestinal motility', he defended his thesis before the adjudicating panel, receiving his doctorate in 1959. At this early stage of his training he had established a laboratory for 'urodynamic' studies, and adapted the apparatus for pressure studies on intestinal segments as bladder substitutes on both canine and feline models. This was just the beginning of his future clinical research, with projects that led to innovations in continence-preserving urological and colo-rectal techniques in patients undergoing cystectomy and procto-colectomy. For years those patients with conditions requiring radical colectomy accepted the need for a permanent opening or ileostomy, for which external appliances/bags were required over the stoma to collect faecal waste. There was still a degree of patient satisfaction of 'conventional ileostomy', as popularised by Bryan Brooke of Birmingham, who had founded the Ileostomy Association in 1956 in the UK. Similarly, urine drainage bags were acceptable in patients after total cystectomy with ileal conduits, and continued to prove satisfactory. However, in 12% of patients the continuous flow of faecal material/urine over the abdominal wall caused skin erosion, and prolapse of the ileostomy and para-stomal hernias were also significant problems. Clearly, other approaches were needed. During his animal experiments that were part of the evolution of the 'continent ileostomy', Kock discovered that graded filling of the sigmoid colon as well as small bowel segments induced strong pressure waves, even when low volumes of fluid were introduced. Such pressures were sufficient to overcome sphincter tone and allow leakage of fluid. But by detubularising of the intestinal segments using a new double folding technique and suturing together the opened terminal ileum, a spherical 'reservoir' could be constructed virtually free of pressure on filling. A satisfactory 'bladder/reservoir' capacity with minimal leakage therefrom resulted after years of experimental work. This unique invention meant that patients whose colon and rectum had been removed could be offered an alternative to an external appliance. Stimulated by these promising experiments, in 1967 Kock began a clinical study using low-pressure reservoir continent ileostomy after procto-colectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis. The reservoir was constructed on a distal 15cm of ileum and the outlet or stoma from the pouch passed through the rectus abdominis muscle at an acute angle to form a flat cutaneous ileostomy. It was hoped that rectus muscle tone would be sufficient to gain continence. Sadly, in many cases it proved insufficient to stop leakage from the internal pouches, and alternatives were sought. In 1969, Nil Kock published a landmark article on this, the 'Kock pouch', or continent ileostomy ('Intra-abdominal "reservoir" in patients with permanent ileostomy. Preliminary observations on a procedure resulting in fecal "continence" in five ileostomy patients' *Arch Surg*. 1969 Aug;99[2]:223-31), describing a surgical method for achieving continence by creating an internal reservoir in the form of a sphere. Fashioned from the lower end of the patient's own small intestine it led to an opening or stoma on the patients' abdominal wall. Several times a day the patient would sit on the toilet, insert a catheter via the stoma and into the pouch and drain out waste material. It was only necessary to place a small dressing over the stoma to absorb mucus in between regular self-catheterisations. A 'nipple valve' constructed by intussuscepting a short outer segment of the efferent limb at the stoma achieved a greater degree of continence: some valves required stapling in order to increase stability. But evacuation difficulties, stenosis, slippage of the valve or leakage still remained the Achilles heel. None of these problems and complications were ignored by Kock and the many other investigators who were attracted to this revolutionary concept. Solutions were found whenever possible. Needless to say, long-term studies are being done on continent ileostomies, with or without valve mechanisms. The incidence of pouchitis, improvements on the nipple valve and, most important of all, pouch durability and need for revisions are being researched. Many studies were done by Nils Kock himself, assessing quality of life and patient satisfaction. Kock's method spread world-wide, and specialist centres in North America and other parts of Scandinavia began to report good or improved results. A Canadian devotee, Zane Cohen, set up a clinic at the University of Toronto after first visiting Kock at St Mark's Hospital, London, where he held a fellowship. He described him as 'an amazing individual who was kind, clever, committed and creative'. Cohen and his colleagues modified and worked on the Kock pouch procedure at the University of Toronto, and the Scandinavian experience has been shared and improved throughout other parts of the world. Nils was a charismatic tutor and skilled clinician who generously shared his skills and ideas with others: he also very much preferred to 'go his own way'. In so doing he expressed a slight distrust of hospital administration and bureaucracy in general. On joining the permanent staff of his old medical school, he set up a private clinical and experimental gastroenterological research unit with a staff of research nurses and graduate assistants, who constituted the cornerstone of his research activities. From this laboratory emanated a large number of original papers and academic theses in gastroenterology and urology. Over the years he himself had over 300 publications, including those detailing modifications necessary to overcome problems with the Kock pouch. As an early part of his own training, and to broaden his experience of other systems of healthcare, in 1968 he and his family went for a year to the USA. In Buffalo, New York, he worked with Bud Schenk in laboratories attached to the Edward J Meyer Memorial Hospital, doing research work on intestinal circulation. No doubt he imbibed the cut and thrust of discussions on 'grand rounds', so common in USA institutions. Nils had numerous invitations to lecture and demonstrate his techniques abroad. In 1973 he was asked by the thoracic surgeon, Ake Senning, to spend a sabattical year and to establish a new clinic for gastrointestinal surgery in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1986 he went to work in the urological department of the University of Mansoura, Egypt, for several short periods. A common problem in this country is the development of carcinoma in bladders infested with bilharzia. Working with Mohammed Ghoneim, who became a great friend, he developed a Kock reservoir which would avoid a stoma after cystectomy. They started a trial using the low pressure pouch provided with an anti-reflux valve that was anastomosed directly to the urethra, a technique which is now used widely. Nils Kock was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1978, at an annual general meeting held in Swansea. At the meeting he also gave a Moynihan lecture entitled 'A new look at faecal and urinary diversion procedures'. Throughout his career he was presented with numerous awards, including, in1988, the Söderberg prize in medicine - the so-called 'small Nobel prize' - for his ground-breaking research and clinical development of continence-preserving surgery. In 1997 he received the Société Internationale d'Urologie award in recognition of his great contributions to urology. Although he was in many ways a workaholic, Nils had many interests outside medicine. He was fond of sailing his yacht round the islands of southern Sweden. In 1969 he, with two other surgeons, bought properties and land on Ljusterö, an island located in the northern part of the Tjust archipelago on the east coast of Sweden. It became a favourite place to which he could escape with his closely-knit family. His original mind led him to carpentry for relaxation, befitting a surgeon who was a good technician. He was widely read on diverse subjects, and visited the library near his home in Gothenburg on a regular basis to borrow books to read at home. Following his retirement in 1990, he and his wife lived for part of the year in southern France, where they enjoyed the French cuisine and wine. In addition they and the members of the family were able to meet up more frequently on Lustjerö. Anki, the older of the two daughters, is married and has two children, My Ernevi and Jonas: she followed her mother into the study of languages. The second daughter, Maria, has followed her father into medicine. She is an anaesthetist and specialist in intensive care at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg. She is married and has three children - Björn, a trainee cardiologist, Olaf, an intern in medicine, and Tove, who is studying psychology. Nils Kock died as he would have wished, peacefully, on 24 August 2011, at his home in Gothenburg whilst waiting to go out for lunch. He was 87. He did not wish for any fuss at his memorial service, which was non-religious. He was known to have cardiac problems, so this was presumably the cause of his sudden death. He was survived by his wife of 61 years, their two daughters and five grandchildren. As the coloproctologist Sir Alan Parks described him at the time of his election to the honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was 'A giant of a man in all ways, a great Scandinavian, and a great European'. His colleagues, Leif Hultén and Helge Myrvold, end their tribute: 'We who had the privilege to work and interact with "Nicke" have a lot to thank him for and have great memories to look back on. We remember him for his dedication, his curiosity, his thoughtfulness and humour.'
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First Title value, for Searching Jose, Sir Ivan Bede (1893 - 1969)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ivan Jose was born on 13 February 1893 in China where his father was an Anglican missionary. When he was ten years old the family moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where his father became first the Rector of Christ Church, North Adelaide, and later Dean of the Adelaide diocese. Ivan had two younger brothers, and all three of them were imbued from their childhood with a spirit of service, inherited no doubt from their father. Wilfred, the second son was killed in action in France in 1917, and Gilbert, the youngest, who qualified in medicine, served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in the second world war and died as a prisoner-of-war. Ivan went to school in Adelaide, first at Queen's School and then at St Peter's College, for which he had a lasting affection. At the outbreak of the first world war he was within a year of the final MB, but at once enlisted as a private in the AAMC. However, after two months in camp he was sent back to qualify, which he did in August 1915 and then rejoined the Medical Corps as a Captain. He served for a short time on the Suez Canal and then joined the 14th Field Ambulance in France, rose to the rank of Major, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. Directly after the war he concentrated on surgical training, and in 1922 he obtained the Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England; the MS of Adelaide in 1923; and the Australasian Fellowship in 1929. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924, and served as surgeon to inpatients from 1930 till obligatory retirement in 1950, under the 20 year rule, after which he acted as honorary consulting surgeon. He was a general surgeon with a special interest in urology, but his outstanding contribution was to teaching, in which he excelled at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He was made the first Director of Surgical Studies in the Medical School in 1936, and proved to be not only an inspiring leader, but also a capable administrator, introducing many improvements in the organization of surgical teaching in the school. He also served on the Council of the University of Adelaide from 1954 till 1966. He never looked for praise or renown, and his quiet almost shy manner masked an underlying resolution and determination which, usually by peaceful persuasion, gained his point and carried the day. It was therefore inevitable that he should be in demand for service on many medical bodies - President of the South Australian Branch of the BMA in 1954; on the Council of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1945 to 1957 and President for the final two years of that period; Chairman of the South Australian Division of the Australian Red Cross Society and a member of the National Council, to which he made a distinguished contribution; President of the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine, which involved coordination of interstate activities, and links with similar bodies overseas; a vigorous part in hospital building in Adelaide, both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and St Andrew's Presbyterian Private Hospital; and he also assisted greatly in the development of the Blood Transfusion Service. It might be supposed that these "public" duties might have interfered with his own practice of surgery, but this was not so, and there were countless patients who were reassured by his own quiet confidence as well as profiting from his surgical skill. Furthermore, he managed to find time for relaxation on the golf course, though as a younger man he had done well at cricket and tennis, and latterly he derived great pleasure and satisfaction from converting an area of scrub land to the south east of Adelaide into first-class grazing property. In May 1919 he married Imogen Hawkes who throughout his career gave him tremendous encouragement and support, whether on so many happy occasions when she played her part as a most charming hostess, or during the grim long months of his final illness which he bore with characteristic fortitude. They shared the delight of the richly deserved honour of his knighthood in 1963, and of their golden wedding which gave them great joy. They had three children, of whom the youngest, John, is following in his father's footsteps as an urological surgeon. Ivan Jose died at the age of 76 on 23 November, 1969, leaving behind him a magnificent record of service to his country, his profession, his University, his College, and his fellow men.
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Sir Henry (1844 - 1926)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-05-11 2012-03-13
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born at Petworth on January 7th, 1844, the son of William Morris, surgeon of that place, and grandson of a Morris practising in North Wales. The surname Morris has been traced in particular to families of mixed Welsh and Jewish descent who settled on the Welsh border after the explusion of the Jews from England by Richard I. Morris in his prime, black-haired, fresh-complexioned, dignified, and a fluent speaker, seemed to point to a mixed Welsh and Jewish descent. He was educated at Epsom College, being one of the first hundred boys admitted to that Institution under the Rev. Dr. Thornton. He then went to University College, London, where he graduated B.A. in 1863 with philosophy (i.e., the philosophy dominant in the early part of the eighteenth century) as his special subject. He proceeded M.A. in 1870, and was throughout life ruled by opinions acquired during this philosophic studies. He studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon after graduating M.B. Lond. For a short time he was Resident Medical Officer of the Dispensary, Stanhope Street. In January, 1870, he was appointed Surgical Registrar at Middlesex Hospital; in August, 1871, was elected Assistant Surgeon, and Surgeon in the Out-patient Cancer Department; from 1879 until 1889 he was Surgeon to the Hospital and was in charge of the Cancer Department. He retired at the age limit in 1905. He was appointed Lecturer in Practical Surgery in 1871, but it was as Lecturer in Anatomy from 1872-1881 that he distinguished himself the most. It gave origin to his most original and permanent publication, *The Anatomy of the Joints of Man* (8vo, 43 plates, 1879; 8th American edition, Philadelphia, 1925). He followed this up later by acting as the editor of *A Treatise on Human Anatomy*, by various authors, 1893. Morris wrote on "The Articulations", other contemporaries contributing. The work ran through a number of editions. In 1881 he became Lecturer on Surgery. In 1880 a domestic servant, aged 19, was diagnosed by the physician, Sydney Coupland, to have a calculus in an undilated kidney, the diagnosis being made from the signs of pain and hæmaturia only. Morris removed the stone on Oct. 22nd, 1880, and the case was reported, as the first designed operation of its kind in this country, in the Clinical Society's *Transactions* (1881, xiv, 30), the stone being preserved in the Hospital Museum. The patient made a complete recovery. This brought him an extended practice and gave him the opportunity of publishing a number of books on genito-urinary surgery; he was for a time the leading authority, until examination by X-rays and the cystoscope expanded the methods of diagnosis. In the latter part of his life he was known outside Middlesex Hospital as a medical educationalist and politician. He became dogmatic and dictatorial in manner, long-winded in speech, influenced by rather an antiquated philosophy, and unsympathetic with novelties which could not be squared with his ingrained views. He believed that the Middlesex Medical School should continue to teach all the subjects of the curriculum, and he opposed with a donation of £1000 the Medical Schools Amalgamation University of London scheme in 1906. Great efforts were made to endow the Medical School and the fund amounted in 1927 to £130,000. He took a lifelong interest in his old school, Epsom College, was for many years Treasurer, and by visiting constantly was practically Manager. As the Surgeon-in-charge of the cancer wards at Middlesex Hospital, he wrote much on the subject, including the Bradshaw Lecture, 1903, before the experimental and radiological developments of the subject. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund was originated in his house, No. 8, at the north-east corner of Cavendish Square, and he acted as Treasurer and Vice-President. In connection with the British Medical Association he was Secretary of the Section of Surgery at Manchester in 1877, and in 1889 Vice-President at Leeds. In 1895 he was President of the Section of Anatomy and Histology in London. In 1893 he delivered the Cavendish Lecture, and in 1908 the Sir William Mitchell Banks Memorial Lecture. At the College Morris held the following posts: 1884-1889, Examiner in Anatomy for the Fellowship; 1893-1914, Member of Council; 1894-1904, Member of the Court of Examiners; 1898, Hunterian Professor (three lectures on Renal Surgery); 1899, Examiner in Dental Surgery; 1903, Bradshaw Lecturer; 1904-1917, Representative on the General Medical Council, and was for ten years (1907-1917) Treasurer; 1906, Member of the Committee of Management of the Conjoint Board; 1906, 1907, President; 1909, Hunterian Orator. He took for the subject of his oration John Hunter in his relation to eighteenth-century philosophic literature, and delivered it in the presence of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, shortly after King George V and Queen Mary; in 1918 he was elected a Trustee of the Hunterian Collection. He also examined in Anatomy at the University of Durham and in Surgery at the University of London. During his last years he led a lonely life; his wife, a Russian dancer, predeceased him and bore him no children. After leaving his house in Cavendish Square he lived at 42 Connaught Square, ailing and afflicted by a slight facial tic. He was definitely ill for some three weeks, and died on June 14th, 1926. He left estate to the value of £44,000. A fine portrait of him in his prime and in the full-dress President's gown by W. W. Ouless, R.A., hangs on the College staircase. There are others at different ages in the College Collection. PUBLICATIONS:- In addition to those already noted Morris wrote: - *Surgical Diseases of the Kidney*, 12mo, 6 plates, 1885. *Injuries and Diseases of the Genital and Urinary Organs,* 8vo, London, 1895. *Hunterian Lectures on Renal Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1898. *Surgical Diseases of the Kidney and Ureter*, 2 vols., 1901. *The Profession of Medicine: Introductory Address at the Middlesex Hospital Medical College, 1st October,* 1873, 8vo, London. "Clinical Lecture on Rupture of the Bladder and its Treatment." - *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1879, ii, 603. "Remarks on Epithelioma and Ichthyosis of the Tongue." - *Med. Soc. Proc.*, 1881-3, vi, 194. *On the Treatment of Inoperable Cancer*, 8vo, London, 1902. *Essentials of Materia Medica*, 7th ed., Philadelphia, 1905. *The Etiology, Symptoms and Treatment of Gallstones, *1896. "Statement of Further Evidence proposed to be given before the Committee on the London Ambulance Service by the President R.C.S.," fol., London, 1908. "Statement prepared for the Royal Commission on Vivisection by the President R.C.S.," fol., London, 1908. "The Darwin Centenary - an Address from the Royal College of Surgeons to the University of Cambridge, 1909," 8vo, 1909. "On the Need of the Medical Representation in Parliament." - *Outlook*, 1918, Oct.5.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, William Henry (1904 - 1995)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09 2022-02-07
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Occupation Urological surgeon
Details William Graham, colloquially known as 'Harry', received his medical education at Glasgow University and King's College London, qualifying MB ChB Glasgow in 1927, and passing the FRCS in 1934. Deciding to specialise in urology after junior posts, he was surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, Islington, and assistant in the surgical unit at the British Postgraduate Medical School. He was later urological surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Preston, at the Chorley and District Hospital, at Westmoreland County Hospital, Kendal, and at Lytham Cottage Hospital. He was also consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Lancaster. He was a member of the Council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, and an honorary lieutenant-colonel in the RAMC. He published papers on congenital abnormalities of the kidneys. He died on 1 July 1995, survived by his sons Jamie, Bill, Bob and Tom; his wife Helen and son John predeceased him. **See below for an additional obituary uploaded 7 February 2022:** William Henry Graham, always known as Harry, was a urological surgeon at Preston Royal Infirmary, Chorley and District Hospital, Westmorland County Hospital and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. He was born in Orton, Westmorland, the village where his father, John Graham, was the local GP for 40 years and his mother, Florence Kate Graham née Jarvis, was the church organist. He attended Appleby Grammar School, from where he went to Glasgow to study medicine, qualifying in 1927. While at Glasgow he represented the university at athletics, running the quarter and half mile, and ran for the Atalanta Club of Scottish Universities against the Achilles Club, originally represented by Oxford and Cambridge. Put forward as a possible for the 1924 Olympics, he was asked by his father whether it was to be medicine or running: there was no competition. In June 1927 he was appointed as a junior house surgeon at Preston Royal Infirmary and the following year became a resident surgical officer. Harry moved to London in December 1929 and until 1942 held various surgical posts under men such as William Edward Tanner, Constantine Lambrinudi, William Turner Warwick, Albert Clifford Morson and George Grey Turner, all the while developing his interests and expertise in urology. In 1935 he was granted six weeks study leave at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore under Hugh H Young. On the evening of 10 May 1941 London suffered its heaviest raid of the Blitz. At St Luke's Hospital that evening Harry and one of his colleagues assessed a casualty ward patient and decided he required urgent surgery. They were making their way to the underground emergency operating theatre when Harry turned off the corridor to wash his hands. His colleague went ahead. The next moment a bomb blast hurled Harry across the room. Recovering his senses, he spent some time rescuing orderlies and nurses, and then broke his own leg when a damaged staircase collapsed under him. Returning to where the mess had been, he discovered the entire medical staff on duty that night had been buried in a crater. The hospital was damaged beyond repair and was closed. Already a member of the Home Guard, in 1942 Harry decided it was time to sign up. Following basic training at Aldershot and promotion to major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he was posted as acting officer in charge of the surgical division, 24th London General Hospital, at Campbell College, Belfast from 1942 to 1943, where in letters home he recorded many opportunities to develop his urological expertise. Posted to India in 1943, he served as a surgical specialist with the 14th British General Hospital in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. On 24 November 1943, he was appointed as a lieutenant colonel and officer in charge of the surgical division 133rd Indian General Hospital, Bareilly and then in Ranchi, Bihar. Again, many opportunities presented themselves to develop his interest in urology. On the surrender of the Japanese he took over the Alexandra Road Hospital, Singapore, designated 69th Indian General Hospital. There he also rescued his brother-in-law, a civilian prisoner in the Sime Road prison camp. He was mentioned in dispatches in September 1946. The family have many letters describing his life during the war. In 1946 Harry Graham was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon to the Preston Royal Infirmary, the Chorley and District Hospital and to Lytham Cottage Hospital. To these were added the Westmorland County Hospital, Kendal in 1947 and in 1948 the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. He was a founder-member and council member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and was a president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. Over the years he held a number of posts on hospital management committees and served on the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Urology* from 1962. He published a number of urological papers including ‘Transplantations of ureters into the large bowel and its effects upon the kidneys’ (*Brit J Surg* 1940 27[107] 540-52) and ‘Injuries to the urogenital tract’(*Proc R Soc Med* 1968 May;61[5]: 477-83). Former departmental registrars were appointed to consultancy posts as far away as Australia, Tasmania, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand and as near as Bolton. Harry Graham designed (or co-designed) several instruments including the Morson-Graham bladder retractor, the Graham modification of Millin’s cystoscope and the Graham x-ray grid kidney stone localiser. Following his retirement in 1969, Harry continued with private practice for a few years before, as he put it, ‘knocking the dust out of the attics’ to tap chests as medical officer at the local Royal Ordnance Factory. In November 1935 Harry Graham married the American Helen Caroline Brooke of Baltimore, Maryland who had graduated in the history of medicine at the University of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and had been sent by Henry Sigerist in the summer of 1933 to London to carry out research at the British Museum. They had five boys – John, James, William, Robert and Thomas. A man of great natural charm, a delightful raconteur and a peerless host, Harry's other interests were shooting, fishing and pigeon racing, in which he was president of his club for many years; in 1969 his bird won one of the great cross-channel races. Helen predeceased him in 1987, and he now lies with her in the churchyard at Orton, next to his parents and his beloved eldest son, a few steps from where he was born, just over 90 years earlier. Robert Graham
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First Title value, for Searching Willson-Pepper, Jack Kenneth (1904 - 2000)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

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Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Jack Kenneth Willson-Pepper, or 'John' as he was always known, was a consultant surgeon in York specialising in urology. He was born in Folkestone on 1 November 1904, where his father, Albert Edward Pepper, was a prominent local businessman and three times mayor. His mother was Mary Southee White, the daughter of a vicar. The 'Willson' was added to his name and to those of both his brothers by deed poll to revive his grandmother's maiden name. As a boy John claimed to have been on the Dover cliffs to see Bleriot's first powered aircraft crossing of the Channel. After Tonbridge School, he went to Jesus College, Cambridge, to read modern history, before training in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London. Here he met Elvira van Tets, a nurse, and they married in 1931. He held house officer posts at St Thomas's, followed by posts as casualty medical officer and then surgical registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1934, Willson-Pepper moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as demonstrator in anatomy at the medical school and surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, where he was much influenced by R J Whillan and F C Pybus. During visits to Continental clinics, he spent several weeks with Zaayer of the Oud Akademische Zeikenhuis, Leiden, where John assisted in preparing Zaayer's paper on the surgery of the oesophagus, read before a surgical congress at Madrid in 1932. In 1936, the Willson-Peppers moved to York, where John and Elvira were to live out their lives. Initially, he joined the practice of Gerald Hughes, Arthur Lister and Charles MacKenzie, family doctors, but with strong specialist interests. John's sights were on surgery and in 1937 he obtained the post of honorary assistant surgeon at the County Hospital, York, alongside his student colleague from St Thomas's, Harold Conyers - they remained close friends and supportive colleagues until 1964. War saw him as a surgical specialist in the RAMC with the rank of Major, spending 18 months in Nigeria and another year in an English military hospital. In 1944, John was one of the first Allied military personnel to enter liberated Brussels. For his medical work there he was awarded the Croix Militaire (premiere classe) by the Belgian government. Back in York, John resigned his general practice partnership in order to concentrate on surgery, especially in urology. When the NHS started, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the York area. Arthur Visick had already established York as a centre for gastric surgery, but he died within a year, leaving Willson-Pepper and Conyers, soon to be joined by Hall to carry on the flame, with Pulvertaft, the radiologist. They co-operated by continuing to register all their gastric patients and founded the York Peptic Ulcer Research Trust, a medical research charity, to ensure that the studies continued. The place of Roux-en-Y anastomosis in the relief of postgastrectomy symptoms was explored. John Goligher had arrived in Leeds by the time that the York clinic was becoming disillusioned with gastrectomy, and the York surgeons were ripe for the study of alternatives. Thus the Leeds-York trial (1958 to 1979) flourished, the first prospective randomised surgical trial to evaluate the relative merits of partial gastrectomy compared to truncal vagotomy plus antrectomy (with gastroduodenal anastomosis) and truncal vagotomy plus posterior gastro-enterostomy for the treatment of duodenal ulcer. John was the last survivor of the original contributors. John kept up with his Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and an associate member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). After an article in 1945 for the *British Medical Journal* on surgery in West Africa, his publications were in the field of urology, on renal actinomycosis, calcification in a polycystic kidney, the permeability of the urethral mucosa, and vesico-uterine fistula, and he contributed to the BAUS national research into phaeochromocytoma. He was proud to be President of York Medical Society from 1958 to 1959. Throughout his time in York, John was active in the city's social life, in the Georgian Society, and many other local activities. In 1942, on brief leave, he reached home early one morning to find his fine Georgian house in Bootham a wreck, after a night time bomb. Amazingly, despite total destruction of the house, everyone sheltering under the kitchen table escaped unscathed. John and Elvira took this as a sign that they should spend the rest of their lives in York, so when they could they bought another Georgian house up the road, and stayed. John was deeply involved with his patient's plight and suffering. When a colleague and friend had serious complications after a partial cystectomy, John's long-standing duodenal ulcer got much worse. He had been already of a firm conviction that he would retire whilst still in possession of his faculties (as he put it, "Unlike some of my senior colleagues"), so he went early, in 1964, and was blessed by a further long and fruitful time with his beloved Elvira. He was justly famous for his quiet friendliness, his courtesy, and his Edwardian good manners. He had deep insights, not without criticism, and could bestow great wisdom to his juniors. Poetry was a special joy and later in life John privately published a volume of his own poems. In 1991, he entered into an erudite correspondence with his MP concerning the danger of rabies entering England via the proposed Channel Tunnel. After 67 years of happy marriage he was a wonderful nurse to his dear wife in her last long illness, and characteristically insisted in keeping her at home. He was trying to rehabilitate himself for continued survival without her when his own last illness came rather unexpectedly seven months later - he died from heart failure and peritonitis in the urological ward of York District Hospital on 25 January 2000. He leaves a son, a daughter (Mrs Jasmine Dyer), four grandchildren, and a great grandson.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Ronald Henry Ottywell Betham (1897 - 1973)

2024-05-13T11:38:43Z

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Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details R H O B Robinson was born in 1897 in London. He was known to his friends as Joey. His childhood was spent in Upper Wimpole Street where his father practised as a consulting surgeon; and he lived all his days in a world of surgery that was changing. His career spanned the years that marked the evolution of surgery from Edwardian to contemporary methods. His father was called "The General" at St Thomas's Hospital and he brought Joey up in the strict regime and social manners of the times. These were the days before telephones or motor cars; days when the night staff at the hospital could only communicate with the consulting surgeon by sending a porter to Wimpole Street in a hansom cab. As a boy Joey met all the distinguished surgeons of the late Victorian era and he was taught to revere the art of a profession that many considered to be at its acme. Science had not yet taken over. He was educated at Malvern College and Kings College, Cambridge, where he won a senior scholarship - an award of which he was very proud. He arrived at St Thomas's as a medical student at the beginning of the first world war; but soon afterwards, he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer. By 1921 he had the FRCS Diploma and soon afterwards he was elected to the consulting staff of St Thomas's Hospital as a general surgeon. There were very few special departments in those days and general surgery was the calling of those who aimed high. Strange as it may now seem he wrote the chapter on orthopaedic surgery in the first edition of the book by Mitchiner and Romanis. He was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1930. When Joey first became a surgeon to out-patients at St Thomas's the majority of his colleagues prided themselves on their ability to operate with great speed, and to be able to work in almost any improvised surroundings - the kitchen of a private house for instance - and with the uninformed assistance of general practitioner anaesthetists. Joey never operated except in a properly equipped operating theatre, and he strove to perfect for himself techniques that later became commonplace: pre-and post-operative care, an accurate incision, good exposure, haemostasis and gentleness. Although he began his career as a general surgeon he soon specialised in urology. He became the senior surgeon at St Thomas's and he filled his important post with care and dignity. He was devoted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and he served as chairman of the Court of Examiners, member of Council, and chairman of the library committee. At the age of 65, at the time of his retirement from St Thomas's Hospital, he also retired from the Council of the College as a matter of principle. He was also President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vice-President of the British Association of Urologists, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. In spite of these important offices, held in the service of surgery, he did not seek and he did not get any special honours. Indeed his sterling merits were only known to his intimate friends: to others they were hidden under a cloak of humility. Throughout his life he had great strength of purpose; an attribute that was revealed when he was a junior doctor and courting Miss Audrey Walker. This young lady was, at first, doubtful of his merits and she went to India to reflect. Joey gave up his work, went to India, brought her back to England and married her: and they lived happily ever after. In his home he was fond of gardening and of flowers: he took a professional interest in motor cars and was a devotee of vintage Bentleys. His patients often found him shy but they saw so much of him that they soon were able to discuss their fears and anxieties with him, and from him many drew their resolve. The medical students, on his firms, were likewise rather inhibited at first but, with time, they came to appreciate his great clinical scholarship. And it is noticeable that many of them kept up their association with him long after they had left St Thomas's. His conversation was somewhat formal but the shafts of dry wit that crept into the things he said were the more effective because they were unexpected. He was well-read, learned about general affairs, and somewhat philosophical; and in all his dealings with his fellow men he was scrupulously fair. Above all else he was a sensitive, tolerant, gentleman. He died on 6 February 1973, and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Browne, Sir George Buckston (1850 - 1945)

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Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Details Born 13 April 1850 in Manchester, the elder son of Henry Browne, MD (1819-1901), physician to Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Ann, his wife daughter of George Hadfield, MP for Sheffield. Henry Browne's father and grandfather had practised at Manchester since the latter, George Buckston Browne (1756-1811), qualified as a Member of the Company of Surgeons of London on 11 March 1779. He was the younger son of Theophilus Browne (born 1715), apothecary of Derby, and Margaret daughter of George Buckston of Bradbourne Hall. Theophilus was the son and grandson of clergymen, both Cambridge graduates; he was friend of Erasmus Darwin; his elder son Henry succeeded to his practice as an apothecary and was twice mayor of Derby. Sir Buckston Browne was thus the fifth medical man in direct paternal descent from Theophilus. He was educated at Amersham Hall School Reading, and at Owens College, Manchester, and in 1866 matriculated at University College, London. He won medals in anatomy, chemistry and midwifery and a gold medal in practical chemistry, and served for a time as demonstrator of anatomy to Professor G V Ellis. At University College Hospital he won the Liston gold medal in surgery, and was elected after open practical competition house surgeon to Sir John Erichsen. He had qualified MRCS in 1874, but before opportunities for further hospital appointments appeared he was invited by Sir Henry Thompson to become his private assistant. This position Browne held for fourteen years, and in 1884 he also started his own consultant practice. In those days elderly men who would now undergo excision of the prostate had to suffer partial operation followed by a "catheter" life under the personal supervision of their surgeon. Thompson had the largest practice of this nature in London. He was also a man of great social distinction, a connoisseur, an artist, and a famous host. Buckston Browne profited both professionally and intellectually from their long association. Although holding no hospital appointment and the Membership as his sole qualification, he achieved through great dexterity, skill and assiduous work, supported by modest, straightforward self-reliance the leading practice in this line of surgery. He never took a holiday though he often walked twenty or thirty miles out of London and back. Among his distinguished patients were R L Stevenson and George Meredith, as Meredith recorded in an appreciative letter afterward published. Meredith dedicated his novel *Lord Ormont and his Aminta* 1894: "Gratefully inscribed to George Buckston Browne, surgeon. Browne has recorded (*Rationalist annual*, 1938) how he used to walk from Wimpole Street to breakfast with his patient at Box Hill, twenty-six miles south of London. Another patient was Sidney Cooper, RA, who lived to be 100 years old. In 1901 Browne delivered the Harveian Society's lectures, speaking on twenty-five years of urinary surgery in England. He had been a member of the society since the year in which he qualified, but he felt that the invitation to deliver the lectures was of great professional benefit 'to one who had so long practised without public recognition'. He was also a member of the Clinical and Pathological Societies, and of the Medical Society of London of which he was ultimately elected an honorary Fellow. In 1909, when Browne retired, he found himself a very rich man. He had spent much on pictures and objects of art, a taste fostered by Sir Henry Thompson's example, from whom also he acquired appreciation of the worth to professional men of dining together in amity. His first relaxation was a voyage round the world, during which he was shipwrecked off the New Zealand coast. Soon his life was clouded by bereavement. He had married in 1874, the year of his qualification, Helen Elizabeth, daughter of George Vaine of Sparsholt, Hampshire. During the first great war their only son, Lieutenant-Colonel George Buckston Browne, DSO, RFA, was killed, and in 1924 their only grandson, George Buckston Browne, the sixth, died of enteric fever. Mrs Browne died in 1926. Their only daughter married Sir Hugh Lett, Baronet, sometime PRCS. Lady Lett survived her father. Buckston Browne now devoted himself to public benefactions, especially to those destined to furthering mutual accord within his profession and to the promotion of surgical science. His benefactions were partly prompted by fear that his name might be forgotten, as he had outlived his son and grandson, but at the same time he was sincerely modest and took real pleasure in small private acts of generosity for which he always "begged no acknowledgment". In 1927 Browne endowed at the College an annual Buckston Browne Dinner at which fifty Fellows and fifty Members should sit down together in amity within the College house. The Buckston Browne Dinner was warmly welcomed and encouraged by successive Councils and was a most potent force in bringing the generality of Members back into contact with the College's affairs. Browne himself usually made one of his excellent speeches, simple, direct, and very clearly enunciated, at the dinner. He spoke at the wartime Buckston Browne Luncheon in 1944, when already in his ninety-fifth year. At several of the dinners he gave each guest a small parting present, and in 1938, when his son-in-law Sir Hugh Lett was President, it took the form of a silver snuff-box suitably inscribed and full of "Kendal brown" snuff. Browne had long been a total abstainer from alcohol and smoking, though a generous host providing excellent wine and cigars for his less abstemious friends. But he had long taken snuff which he recommended as a sure prophylactic against the common cold. In 1928 Browne endowed an annual dinner for the Harveian Society, which became one of the best-liked social foregatherings of the profession. But he did not neglect the more serious work of the Society or the College. At the Harveian Society he endowed a biennial Buckston Browne prize in memory of his son, to be awarded for an essay based on original work, and accompanied by a Harveian medal designed for him by the Royal Mint, at the suggestion of his friend Sir D'Arcy Power, FRCS, from Faithorne's engraved portrait of William Harvey. The Society elected him its life-president. His benefactions to the College were even more princely the building and endowment to a value of £100,000 of a surgical research-farm under the direct control of the College. Browne who had been brought up in the high day of Victorian agnosticism had one particular hero, Charles Darwin, next to whom he ranked John Hunter, Edward Jenner, and Joseph Lister. In 1928 Sir Arthur Keith, FRCS, when president of British Association, appealed publicly for the preservation of Darwin's house at Downe, Kent, which was for sale. Browne immediately bought it, presented it to the British Association to preserve as a national Darwin memorial, and proceeded with characteristic thoroughness to re-collect Darwin's furniture for it. He was successful in securing the co-operation to this end of the Darwin family, but also placed in the house some his own family portraits, as a memorial to his wife and son. In 1931, when Keith suggested to him the need for young surgeons to have some retreat comparable to John Hunter's farm at Earl's Court, where their researches would be uninterrupted by the pressure of metropolitan interests, Browne bought thirteen acres adjoining the Darwin estate, built the Buckston Browne research farm, and presented it to the College. He had been elected a Fellow in 1926 as a Member of twenty years standing, and in 1931 was awarded the honorary medal of the College. In 1932 he was created a Knight Bachelor. He was also awarded the honorary doctorate of laws by Aberdeen University. Browne was a generous benefactor to University College Hospital where he equipped the senior common room with fine furniture and pictures of his own collecting, and also endowed a bed in memory his wife. To Wesley College, Cambridge, he presented a previously unknown portrait of John Wesley, and to the Royal College of Surgeons a charming eighteenth-century portrait of John Hunter which he believed to be by Gainsborough. In 1931 he paid for and personally supervised the restoration of the Hunterian museum pictures. He was elected a freeman of the Society of Apothecaries in 1938, and in 1944 an honorary licentiate. At one of his last public appearances (1944) he gave the Society a gift of silver in honour of his son-in-law's Mastership. Browne's interests and benefactions were not confined to his profession. He served as president of the Old Owensian Association and as vice-president of the Dickens Fellowship. At Sparsholt, his wife's old home, he endowed two cottages in her memory. To the Victoria and Albert Museum he gave a bust of King Charles II and a Chippendale barometer, and also made gifts to the National Portrait Gallery. He had given away during his lifetime very considerably more than £100,000. His pictures and art collections were sold at Christie's in April and his books at Sotheby's in May 1945. Browne continued active till the close of his life. In his eighties, he would frequently walk the fifteen miles between his house, 80 Wimpole Street, and his "farm" at Downe, and always went about London on foot. He still wrote an excellent, bold hand, and was a fairly frequent contributor to the medical journals and to *The Times*. He lived in London almost throughout the war of 1939-45, being with difficulty persuaded to take refuge at Sparsholt for some months, though in fact he had by then lived through the worst of the air-raids in London. He broke his femur early in the new year of 1945 and died in University College Hospital on 19 January 1945, three months before his ninety-fifth birthday. Portraits:- Painting in oils by E Bundy, ARA, at the Farm; painted in 1915. Bronze bust by C Hartwell, commissioned in 1931 by the Council of the College, at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Painting in oils by Robin Darwin, great-grandson of Charles Darwin, at Downe House; painted about 1933. Miniature by P Buckman, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1934. Bronze bust by J N Gosse at the Farm, presented by Dr A H Gosse 1935. There are several photographs in the College collection, which show better than the formal portraits his air of genial independence. Publications:- Twenty-five years' experience of urinary surgery in England. Harveian Society's lectures 1901. Urinary surgery, in Heath's *Dictionary of surgery*. Edward Jenner. *Med Press* 1934, 137, 206; reprinted in *British masters of medicine*, edited by Sir D'Arcy Power, 1936. The rise of the medical profession (speech at Buckston Browne luncheon, Royal College of Surgeons, 12 February 1942). Privately printed. Reminiscences. *Rationalist annual*, 1938. *University College Hospital medical school. Senior common room. An illustrated description of the pictures and furniture presented by Sir Buckston Browne*. 44 pages, portrait, and 14 plates. Also an unillustrated edition, 12 pages.
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